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Image segmentation is a vital task for providing human assistance and enhancing autonomy in our daily lives. In particular, RGB-D segmentation-leveraging both visual and depth cues-has attracted increasing attention as it promises richer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Aecheon Jung , Soyun Choi , Junhong Min , Sungeun Hong

A difficult step in the process of karyotyping is segmenting chromosomes that touch or overlap. In an attempt to automate the process, previous studies turned to Deep Learning methods, with some formulating the task as a semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Daniel Kluvanec , Thomas B. Phillips , Kenneth J. W. McCaffrey , Noura Al Moubayed

Detecting and segmenting object instances is a common task in biomedical applications. Examples range from detecting lesions on functional magnetic resonance images, to the detection of tumours in histopathological images and extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Tim Prangemeier , Christoph Reich , Heinz Koeppl

This abstract briefly describes a segmentation algorithm developed for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Detection Competition hosted at [ref]. The objective of the competition is to perform a segmentation (in the form of a binary mask image) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 David Alvarez , Monica Iglesias

The locations of different mRNA molecules can be revealed by multiplexed in situ RNA detection. By assigning detected mRNA molecules to individual cells, it is possible to identify many different cell types in parallel. This in turn enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Axel Andersson , Andrea Behanova , Carolina Wählby , Filip Malmberg

In the detection of anemia, leukemia and other blood diseases, the number and type of leukocytes are essential evaluation parameters. However, the conventional leukocyte counting method is not only quite time-consuming but also error-prone.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Haichao Cao , Hong Liu , Enmin Song

This paper proposes a novel automatic classification framework for the recognition of five types of white blood cells. Segmenting complete white blood cells from blood smears images and extracting advantageous features from them remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Na Dong , Meng-die Zhai , Jian-fang Chang , Chun-ho Wu

Cell instance segmentation in cytology images has significant importance for biology analysis and cancer screening, while remains challenging due to 1) the extensive overlapping translucent cell clusters that cause the ambiguous boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hao Jiang , Rushan Zhang , Yanning Zhou , Yumeng Wang , Hao Chen

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Class-incremental/Continual image segmentation (CIS) aims to train an image segmenter in stages, where the set of available categories differs at each stage. To leverage the built-in objectness of query-based transformers, which mitigates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yuchen Zhu , Cheng Shi , Dingyou Wang , Jiajin Tang , Zhengxuan Wei , Yu Wu , Guanbin Li , Sibei Yang

This paper addresses the problem of automatically detecting human skin in images without reliance on color information. A primary motivation of the work has been to achieve results that are consistent across the full range of skin tones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Xu , Abhijit Sarkar , A. Lynn Abbott

Medical image segmentation is a relevant problem, with deep learning being an exponent. However, the necessity of a high volume of fully annotated images for training massive models can be a problem, especially for applications whose images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Matheus A. Cerqueira , Flávia Sprenger , Bernardo C. A. Teixeira , Alexandre X. Falcão

An automatic image segmentation procedure is an inevitable part of many image analyses and computer vision which deeply affect the rest of the system; therefore, a set of interactive segmentation evaluation methods can substantially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-22 Majid Harouni , Hadi Yazdani Baghmaleki

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) has numerous potential applications across various domains. The goal is to count objects of an arbitrary category during testing, based on only a few annotated exemplars. In this paper, we point out that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

This abstract describes the segmentation system used to participate in the challenge ISIC 2017: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Several preprocessing techniques have been tested for three color representations (RGB, YCbCr…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola , Marta Gómez-Álvarez , Victor Osma-Ruiz , Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón , Rubén Fraile

Cell counting in microscopy images is vital in medicine and biology but extremely tedious and time-consuming to perform manually. While automated methods have advanced in recent years, state-of-the-art approaches tend to increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Live cell culture is crucial in biomedical studies for analyzing cell properties and dynamics in vitro. This study focuses on segmenting unstained live cells imaged with bright-field microscopy. While many segmentation approaches exist for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Surajit Das , Gourav Roy , Pavel Zun

Red blood cells are highly deformable and present in various shapes. In blood cell disorders, only a subset of all cells is morphologically altered and relevant for the diagnosis. However, manually labeling of all cells is laborious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ario Sadafi , Asya Makhro , Anna Bogdanova , Nassir Navab , Tingying Peng , Shadi Albarqouni , Carsten Marr

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Segmenting an object in a video presents significant challenges. Each pixel must be accurately labelled, and these labels must remain consistent across frames. The difficulty increases when the segmentation is with arbitrary granularity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Amirhossein Alimohammadi , Sauradip Nag , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Ali Mahdavi Amiri