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The critical challenge of Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is how to effectively leverage the limited labeled data and massive unlabeled data to improve the model's generalization performance. In this paper, we first revisit the popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Chen , Ran Tao , Yue Fan , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Bernt Schiele , Xing Xie , Bhiksha Raj , Marios Savvides

We propose Dense FixMatch, a simple method for online semi-supervised learning of dense and structured prediction tasks combining pseudo-labeling and consistency regularization via strong data augmentation. We enable the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Miquel Martí i Rabadán , Alessandro Pieropan , Hossein Azizpour , Atsuto Maki

Supervised learning techniques are at the center of many tasks in remote sensing. Unfortunately, these methods, especially recent deep learning methods, often require large amounts of labeled data for training. Even though satellites…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Pablo Gómez , Gabriele Meoni

Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

Semi-supervised learning has emerged as a widely adopted technique in the field of medical image segmentation. The existing works either focuses on the construction of consistency constraints or the generation of pseudo labels to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Ning Gao , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Nanning Zheng

Obtaining large-scale medical data, annotated or unannotated, is challenging due to stringent privacy regulations and data protection policies. In addition, annotating medical images requires that domain experts manually delineate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Semi-supervised learning has proven highly effective in tackling the challenge of limited labeled training data in medical image segmentation. In general, current approaches, which rely on intra-image pixel-wise consistency training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Han Wu , Chong Wang , Zhiming Cui

In semantic segmentation, the creation of pixel-level labels for training data incurs significant costs. To address this problem, semi-supervised learning, which utilizes a small number of labeled images alongside unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Takahiro Mano , Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising solution to alleviate the annotation burden of deep learning-based medical image segmentation models. While recent advances in foundation model-driven SSL have pushed the boundary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Bichun Xu , Judong Luo , Zhigang Wu , Yu Fu , Zixin Hu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fine-grained annotations is time-consuming and requires experts. For this reason, weakly supervised learning aims at optimising machine learning models using weaker forms of annotations, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Scribble-supervised medical image segmentation tackles the limitation of sparse masks. Conventional approaches alternate between: labeling pseudo-masks and optimizing network parameters. However, such iterative two-stage paradigm is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zefan Yang , Di Lin , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

Medical image segmentation is critical for computer-aided diagnosis. However, dense pixel-level annotation is time-consuming and expensive, and medical datasets often exhibit severe class imbalance. Such imbalance causes minority structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yingxue Su , Yiheng Zhong , Keying Zhu , Zimu Zhang , Zhuoru Zhang , Yifang Wang , Yuxin Zhang , Jingxin Liu

Medical image segmentation is clinically important, yet data privacy and the cost of expert annotation limit the availability of labeled data. Federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL) offers a solution but faces two challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sahar Nasirihaghighi , Negin Ghamsarian , Yiping Li , Marcel Breeuwer , Raphael Sznitman , Klaus Schoeffmann

The success of deep learning in medical imaging is mostly achieved at the cost of a large labeled data set. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising solution by leveraging the structure of unlabeled data to improve learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Zhiyuan Li , Sandesh Ghimire , Linwei Wang

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and time-consuming task. Even worse, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ke Yan , Qing Cai , Fan Zhang , Ziyan Cao , Zhi Liu

Medical image segmentation methods are generally designed as fully-supervised to guarantee model performance, which require a significant amount of expert annotated samples that are high-cost and laborious. Semi-supervised image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiangyu Zhao , Zengxin Qi , Sheng Wang , Qian Wang , Xuehai Wu , Ying Mao , Lichi Zhang

Consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling have significantly advanced semi-supervised learning (SSL). Prior works have effectively employed Mixup for consistency regularization in SSL. However, our findings indicate that applying Mixup…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Haorong Han , Jidong Yuan , Chixuan Wei , Zhongyang Yu

Medical image annotation typically requires expert knowledge and hence incurs time-consuming and expensive data annotation costs. To alleviate this burden, we propose a novel learning scenario, Exemplar Learning (EL), to explore automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Despite achieving promising results in a breadth of medical image segmentation tasks, deep neural networks require large training datasets with pixel-wise annotations. Obtaining these curated datasets is a cumbersome process which limits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bingyuan Liu , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz