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We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Medical image segmentation modeling is a high-stakes task where understanding of uncertainty is crucial for addressing visual ambiguity. Prior work has developed segmentation models utilizing probabilistic or generative mechanisms to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Andre Ye , Quan Ze Chen , Amy Zhang

In surgical procedures, correct instrument counting is essential. Instance segmentation is a location method that locates not only an object's bounding box but also each pixel's specific details. However, obtaining mask-level annotations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zhen Sun , Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Chen , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu

In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kangning Liu , Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jakub Chłędowski , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Krzysztof J. Geras

Maternal-fetal Ultrasound is the primary modality for monitoring fetal development, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality annotations. To address this limitation, we propose a semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

Semantic labelling and instance segmentation are two tasks that require particularly costly annotations. Starting from weak supervision in the form of bounding box detection annotations, we propose a new approach that does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Jan Hosang , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) has emerged as a solution to mitigate the conflict between annotation cost and model performance by adopting sparse annotation formats (e.g., point, scribble, block, etc.). Typical approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Y. Liu , L. Lin , K. K. Y. Wong , X. Tang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Arash Vahdat , Mani Ranjbar , William G. Macready

Uncertainty quantification in automated image analysis is highly desired in many applications. Typically, machine learning models in classification or segmentation are only developed to provide binary answers; however, quantifying the…

Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mélanie Gaillochet , Mehrdad Noori , Sahar Dastani , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Weakly supervised nuclei segmentation is a critical problem for pathological image analysis and greatly benefits the community due to the significant reduction of labeling cost. Adopting point annotations, previous methods mostly rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Weizhen Liu , Qian He , Xuming He

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medicalimage segmentation, but it usually requires a large numberof images labeled with fine-grained segmentation masks, andthe annotation of these masks can be very expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Shaoan Xie , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Uncertainty estimation has been widely studied in medical image segmentation as a tool to provide reliability, particularly in deep learning approaches. However, previous methods generally lack effective supervision in uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuzhu Li , An Sui , Fuping Wu , Xiahai Zhuang