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Deep segmentation neural networks require large training datasets with pixel-wise segmentations, which are expensive to obtain in practice. Mixed supervision could mitigate this difficulty, with a small fraction of the data containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

This thesis aims to investigate the feasibility of knowledge transfer between neural networks for medical image segmentation tasks, specifically focusing on the transfer from a larger multi-task "Teacher" network to a smaller "Student"…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Risab Biswas

Though deep learning has achieved advanced performance recently, it remains a challenging task in the field of medical imaging, as obtaining reliable labeled training data is time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yixin Wang , Yao Zhang , Jiang Tian , Cheng Zhong , Zhongchao Shi , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

This paper explores the transfer of knowledge from general vision models pretrained on 2D natural images to improve 3D medical image segmentation. We focus on the semi-supervised setting, where only a few labeled 3D medical images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Pak-Hei Yeung , Jayroop Ramesh , Pengfei Lyu , Ana Namburete , Jagath Rajapakse

Partially-supervised learning can be challenging for segmentation due to the lack of supervision for unlabeled structures, and the methods directly applying fully-supervised learning could lead to incompatibility, meaning ground truth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

Weak-strong consistency learning strategies are widely employed in semi-supervised medical image segmentation to train models by leveraging limited labeled data and enforcing weak-to-strong consistency. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chaowei Chen , Xiang Zhang , Honglie Guo , Shunfang Wang

Supervised learning algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Networks have become the benchmark for medical image segmentation tasks, but their effectiveness heavily relies on a large amount of labeled data. However, annotating medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Tao Wang , Yuanbin Chen , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Bizhe Bai , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Purpose: Segmentation of surgical instruments in endoscopic videos is essential for automated surgical scene understanding and process modeling. However, relying on fully supervised deep learning for this task is challenging because manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Manish Sahu , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Stefan Zachow

The limited availability of annotated data in medical imaging makes semi-supervised learning increasingly appealing for its ability to learn from imperfect supervision. Recently, teacher-student frameworks have gained popularity for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Vi Vu , Ba-Thinh Lam , Phat Huynh , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage minimal expert annotations, yet remains confronted by challenges in maintaining high-quality consistency learning. Excessive perturbations can degrade alignment and hinder precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Wenbo Xiao , Zhihao Xu , Guiping Liang , Yangjun Deng , Yi Xiao

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

Addressing the challenge of domain shift between datasets is vital in maintaining model performance. In the context of cross-domain object detection, the teacher-student framework, a widely-used semi-supervised model, has shown significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Runou Yang , Tian Tian , Jinwen Tian

Surgical tool detection in minimally invasive surgery is an essential part of computer-assisted interventions. Current approaches are mostly based on supervised methods which require large fully labeled data to train supervised models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Mansoor Ali , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Sharib Ali

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 learning is of great significance in medical image segmentation by exploiting unlabeled data. Among its strategies, the co-training framework is prominent. However, previous co-training studies predominantly concentrate on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Pengcheng Zhou , Lantian Zhang , Wei Li

A common assumption in semi-supervised learning is that the labeled, unlabeled, and test data are drawn from the same distribution. However, this assumption is not satisfied in many applications. In many scenarios, the data is collected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gholamali Aminian , Mahed Abroshan , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Semi-supervised learning relaxes the need of large pixel-wise labeled datasets for image segmentation by leveraging unlabeled data. The scarcity of high-quality labeled data remains a major challenge in medical image analysis due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jun Li

Medical ultrasound image segmentation faces significant challenges due to limited labeled data and characteristic imaging artifacts including speckle noise and low-contrast boundaries. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jingguo Qu , Xinyang Han , Yao Pu , Man-Lik Chui , Simon Takadiyi Gunda , Ziman Chen , Jing Qin , Ann Dorothy King , Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu , Jing Cai , Michael Tin-Cheung Ying

Limited availability of annotated medical imaging data poses a challenge for deep learning algorithms. Although transfer learning minimizes this hurdle in general, knowledge transfer across disparate domains is shown to be less effective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Jitender Singh Virk , Deepti R. Bathula

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