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Pathology context and expert experience play significant roles in clinical ocular disease diagnosis. Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have good ocular disease recognition results, they often ignore exploring the clinical pathology…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation for medical image segmentation remains a significant challenge due to substantial domain shifts across imaging modalities, such as CT and MRI. While recent vision-language representation learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

In clinical practice, crossmodal information including medical images and tabular data is essential for disease diagnosis. There exists a significant modality gap between these data types, which obstructs advancements in crossmodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tianling Liu , Hongying Liu , Fanhua Shang , Lequan Yu , Tong Han , Liang Wan

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and ALIGN, are generally trained on datasets consisting of image-caption pairs obtained from the web. However, real-world multimodal datasets, such as healthcare data, are significantly more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Maya Varma , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Sarah Hooper , Akshay Chaudhari , Curtis Langlotz

Recently, multimodal deep learning, which integrates histopathology slides and molecular biomarkers, has achieved a promising performance in glioma grading. Despite great progress, due to the intra-modality complexity and inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Li Pan , Yupei Zhang , Qiushi Yang , Tan Li , Xiaohan Xing , Maximus C. F. Yeung , Zhen Chen

The success of deep learning heavily depends on the availability of large labeled training sets. However, it is hard to get large labeled datasets in medical image domain because of the strict privacy concern and costly labeling efforts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Dewen Zeng , Yawen Wu , Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi

Medical AI assistants support doctors in disease diagnosis, medical image analysis, and report generation. However, they still face significant challenges in clinical use, including limited accuracy with multimodal content and insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Haonan Wang , Jiaji Mao , Lehan Wang , Qixiang Zhang , Marawan Elbatel , Yi Qin , Huijun Hu , Baoxun Li , Wenhui Deng , Weifeng Qin , Hongrui Li , Jialin Liang , Jun Shen , Xiaomeng Li

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in numerous medical engineering applications. Recently, language-guided segmentation has shown promise in medical scenarios where textual clinical reports are readily available as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mingjian Li , Mingyuan Meng , Shuchang Ye , Michael Fulham , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

Medical object detection suffers when a single detector is trained on mixed medical modalities (e.g., CXR, CT, MRI) due to heterogeneous statistics and disjoint representation spaces. To address this challenge, we turn to representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ara Seo , Bryan Sangwoo Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li

Early diagnosis and accurate identification of lesion location and progression in prostate cancer (PCa) are critical for assisting clinicians in formulating effective treatment strategies. However, due to the high semantic homogeneity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Zhengcheng Lin , Zuobin Ying , Zhenyu Li , Zhenyu Liu , Jian Lu , Weiping Ding

Medical image representations can be learned through medical vision-language contrastive learning (mVLCL) where medical imaging reports are used as weak supervision through image-text alignment. These learned image representations can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Mingjian Li , Mingyuan Meng , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

Medical image segmentation typically demands extensive dense annotations for model training, which is both time-consuming and skill-intensive. To mitigate this burden, exemplar-based medical image segmentation methods have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Medical image segmentation demands the aggregation of global and local feature representations, posing a challenge for current methodologies in handling both long-range and short-range feature interactions. Recently, vision mamba (ViM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yun Zhu , Dong Zhang , Yi Lin , Yifei Feng , Jinhui Tang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object described by a given natural language expression. Typically, referring expressions contain complex relationships between the target and its surrounding objects. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Bo Chen , Zhiwei Hu , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

Vision-language models have shown strong performance, but they often generalize poorly to specialized domains. While semi-supervised vision-language learning mitigates this limitation by leveraging a small set of labeled image-text pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Junwon You , Mihyun Jang , Sangwoo Mo , Jae-Hun Jung

Multimodal learning has shown promise in medical imaging, combining complementary modalities like images and text. Vision-language models (VLMs) capture rich diagnostic cues but often require large paired datasets and prompt- or text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Banafsheh Karimian , Giulia Avanzato , Soufian Belharbi , Alexis Guichemerre , Luke McCaffrey , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have showcased a remarkable ability to extract transferable features for downstream tasks. Nonetheless, the training process of these models is usually based on a coarse-grained contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ali Abdollah , Amirmohammad Izadi , Armin Saghafian , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohammad Mozafari , Amirreza Mirzaei , Mohammadmahdi Samiei , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Artificial intelligence has made significant strides in medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), yet prevalent studies often interpret images holistically, overlooking the visual regions of interest that may contain crucial information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xupeng Chen , Zhixin Lai , Kangrui Ruan , Shichu Chen , Jiaxiang Liu , Zuozhu Liu

Medical vision language pre-training (VLP) has emerged as a frontier of research, enabling zero-shot pathological recognition by comparing the query image with the textual descriptions for each disease. Due to the complex semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Yutong Xie , Yuankai Qi , Lingqiao Liu , Liyang Liu , Bowen Zhang , Zhibin Liao , Qi Wu , Minh-Son To , Johan W. Verjans