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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

Learning concepts that are consistent with human perception is important for Deep Neural Networks to win end-user trust. Post-hoc interpretation methods lack transparency in the feature representations learned by the models. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sandareka Wickramanayake , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Prompt learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for adapting pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to few-shot whole slide image (WSI) classification by aligning visual features with textual representations, thereby reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Junjie Zhou , Wei Shao , Yagao Yue , Wei Mu , Peng Wan , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang

Classification of pathological images is the basis for automatic cancer diagnosis. Despite that deep learning methods have achieved remarkable performance, they heavily rely on labeled data, demanding extensive human annotation efforts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Lanfeng Zhong , Zongyao Huang , Yang Liu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

We propose Next Concept Prediction (NCP), a generative pretraining paradigm built on top of Next Token Prediction (NTP). NCP predicts discrete concepts that span multiple tokens, thereby forming a more challenging pretraining objective. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuliang Liu , Yunchong Song , Yixuan Wang , Kewen Ge , Alex Lamb , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Bowen Zhou , Zhouhan Lin

Surface defect detection plays a critical role in industrial quality inspection. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced the automation level of detection processes. However, conventional semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hang-Cheng Dong , Lu Zou , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Polyp segmentation is a crucial step towards computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, most of the polyp segmentation methods require pixel-wise annotated datasets. Annotated datasets are tedious and time-consuming to produce,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Guangyu Ren , Michalis Lazarou , Jing Yuan , Tania Stathaki

Medical Vision Language Pretraining (VLP) has recently emerged as a promising solution to the scarcity of labeled data in the medical domain. By leveraging paired/unpaired vision and text datasets through self-supervised learning, models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Bidur Khanal , Cristian A. Linte , Binod Bhattarai

Weak supervision learning on classification labels has demonstrated high performance in various tasks, while a few pixel-level fine annotations are also affordable. Naturally a question comes to us that whether the combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiahui Li , Wen Chen , Xiaodi Huang , Zhiqiang Hu , Qi Duan , Hongsheng Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

Despite the remarkable success of the end-to-end paradigm in deep learning, it often suffers from slow convergence and heavy reliance on large-scale datasets, which fundamentally limits its efficiency and applicability in data-scarce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Feifei Zhang , Zhenhong Jia , Sensen Song , Fei Shi , Dayong Ren

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS), which leverages image-level labels, has garnered significant attention due to its cost-effectiveness. The previous methods mainly strengthen the inter-class differences to avoid class semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wangyu Wu , Xianglin Qiu , Siqi Song , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Biomedical word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an important intermediate task in many natural language processing applications such as named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, and relation extraction. In this paper, we employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 A. K. M. Sabbir , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Ramakanth Kavuluru

The concept bottleneck model (CBM), as a technique improving interpretability via linking predictions to human-understandable concepts, makes high-risk and life-critical medical image classification credible. Typically, existing CBM methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chunjiang Wang , Kun Zhang , Yandong Liu , Zhiyang He , Xiaodong Tao , S. Kevin Zhou

Humans use abstract concepts for understanding instead of hard features. Recent interpretability research has focused on human-centered concept explanations of neural networks. Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) estimate a model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avani Gupta , Saurabh Saini , P J Narayanan

Aligning large-scale commercial models with user intent is crucial to preventing harmful outputs. Current methods rely on human supervision but become impractical as model complexity increases. When models surpass human knowledge, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jinhao Li , Sarah M. Erfani , Lei Feng , James Bailey , Feng Liu

The multimodal deep neural networks, represented by CLIP, have generated rich downstream applications owing to their excellent performance, thus making understanding the decision-making process of CLIP an essential research topic. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chenming Shang , Hengyuan Zhang , Hao Wen , Yujiu Yang

Healthcare fraud detection remains a critical challenge due to limited availability of labeled data, constantly evolving fraud tactics, and the high dimensionality of medical records. Traditional supervised methods are challenged by extreme…

Several studies have recently pointed that existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) models heavily suffer from the language prior problem, which refers to capturing superficial statistical correlations between the question type and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yudong Han , Liqiang Nie , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Yan Yan

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich