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Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

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Medical image segmentation models struggle with rare abnormalities due to scarce annotated pathological data. We propose DiffAug a novel framework that combines textguided diffusion-based generation with automatic segmentation validation to…

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Diffusion models break down the challenging task of generating data from high-dimensional distributions into a series of easier denoising steps. Inspired by this paradigm, we propose a novel approach that extends the diffusion framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Eslam Abdelrahman , Liangbing Zhao , Vincent Tao Hu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Perez , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has gained growing interest due to its ability to utilize unannotated data. The current state-of-the-art methods mostly rely on pseudo-labeling within a co-training framework. These methods depend…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Suruchi Kumari , Pravendra Singh

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Semi-supervised learning has demonstrated great potential in medical image segmentation by utilizing knowledge from unlabeled data. However, most existing approaches do not explicitly capture high-level semantic relations between distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Qianying Liu , Xiao Gu , Paul Henderson , Fani Deligianni

Both limited annotation and domain shift are prevalent challenges in medical image segmentation. Traditional semi-supervised segmentation and unsupervised domain adaptation methods address one of these issues separately. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qinghe Ma , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Text-guided Medical Image Segmentation has shown considerable promise for medical image segmentation, with rich clinical text serving as an effective supplement for scarce data. However, current methods have two key bottlenecks. On one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Linglin Liao , Qichuan Geng , Yu Liu

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities in medical images is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis and analysis. While deep learning techniques excel at this task, their computational demands pose challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Image segmentation is crucial in many computational pathology pipelines, including accurate disease diagnosis, subtyping, outcome, and survivability prediction. The common approach for training a segmentation model relies on a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sachin Kumar Danisetty , Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Automated medical image segmentation plays an important role in many clinical applications, which however is a very challenging task, due to complex background texture, lack of clear boundary and significant shape and texture variation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Qikui Zhu , Liang Li , Jiangnan Hao , Yunfei Zha , Yan Zhang , Yanxiang Cheng , Fei Liao , Pingxiang Li

Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Jax Luo , Songlin Zhao , Yajun Yu , Scott B. Raymond , Hao Peng , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi , Wei Liu , You Zhang

Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yanxia Liu , Mingkui Tan

Predicting single-cell perturbation outcomes directly advances gene function analysis and facilitates drug candidate selection, making it a key driver of both basic and translational biomedical research. However, a major bottleneck in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Changxi Chi , Yufei Huang , Jun Xia , Jiangbin Zheng , Yunfan Liu , Zelin Zang , Stan Z. Li

In medical images, various types of lesions often manifest significant differences in their shape and texture. Accurate medical image segmentation demands deep learning models with robust capabilities in multi-scale and boundary feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zhenhuan Zhou , Along He , Yanlin Wu , Rui Yao , Xueshuo Xie , Tao Li

Deep learning (DL) has shown remarkable success in various medical imaging data analysis applications. However, it remains challenging for DL models to achieve good generalization, especially when the training and testing datasets are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Yuemeng Li , Yong Fan

Medical image segmentation methods generally assume that the process from medical image to segmentation is unbiased, and use neural networks to establish conditional probability models to complete the segmentation task. This assumption does…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Ruiguo Yu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Yujie Diao , Di Jin , Witold Pedrycz

The application of deep learning to medical image segmentation has been hampered due to the lack of abundant pixel-level annotated data. Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a promising strategy for breaking the deadlock. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoang Shen , Guokai Zhang , Huilin Lai , Jihao Luo , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo