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Training medical image segmentation models for rare yet clinically important imaging modalities is challenging due to the scarcity of annotated data, and manual mask annotations can be costly and labor-intensive to acquire. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Haoning Wu , Ziheng Zhao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is indispensable for diagnosing and planning treatment in various medical conditions due to its ability to produce multi-series images that reveal different tissue characteristics. However, integrating these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lijun Yan , Siwen Wang , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

We present LlamaSeg, a visual autoregressive framework that unifies multiple image segmentation tasks via natural language instructions. We reformulate image segmentation as a visual generation problem, representing masks as "visual" tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiru Deng , Tengjin Weng , Tianyu Yang , Wenhan Luo , Zhiheng Li , Wenhao Jiang

Three-dimensional (3D) medical images, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are essential for clinical applications. However, the need for diverse and comprehensive representations is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Siwen Wang , Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lixian Su , Fandong Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Yizhou Yu

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation is a complex and challenging task that integrates the paradigms of computer vision and natural language processing. Existing datasets for RRSIS suffer from critical limitations in resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhigang Yang , Huiguang Yao , Linmao Tian , Xuezhi Zhao , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

Histopathology image analysis is critical yet challenged by the demand of segmenting tissue regions and nuclei instances for tumor microenvironment and cellular morphology analysis. Existing studies focused on tissue semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qing Xu , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Despite recent progress in text-prompt-based medical image segmentation, these methods are limited to single-round dialogues and fail to support multi-round reasoning, which is important for medical education scenarios. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qinyue Tong , Ziqian Lu , Jun Liu , Rui Zuo , Zheming Lu , Yueming Jin

Medical imaging segmentation is a highly active area of research, with deep learning-based methods achieving state-of-the-art results in several benchmarks. However, the lack of standardized tools for training, testing, and evaluating new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Adrian Celaya , Evan Lim , Rachel Glenn , Brayden Mi , Alex Balsells , Dawid Schellingerhout , Tucker Netherton , Caroline Chung , Beatrice Riviere , David Fuentes

Annotation of medical images, such as MRI and CT scans, is crucial for evaluating treatment efficacy and planning radiotherapy. However, the extensive workload of medical professionals limits their ability to annotate large image datasets,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Eichi Takaya , Shinnosuke Yamamoto

In this work, we address the task of referring image segmentation (RIS), which aims at predicting a segmentation mask for the object described by a natural language expression. Most existing methods focus on establishing unidirectional or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jianhua Yang , Yan Huang , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), aims to segment the object referred by a given sentence in an image by understanding both visual and linguistic information. However, existing RIS methods tend to explore top-performance models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiaoyan Jiang , Hang Yang , Kaiying Zhu , Xihe Qiu , Shibo Zhao , Sifan Zhou

The segmentation of lesions in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (msTBI) presents a significant challenge in neuroimaging due to the diverse characteristics of these lesions, which vary in size, shape, and distribution across brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Constantin Ulrich , Tassilo Wald , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Pre-trained segmentation models are a powerful and flexible tool for segmenting images. Recently, this trend has extended to medical imaging. Yet, often these methods only produce a single prediction for a given image, neglecting inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Benjamin Towle , Xin Chen , Ke Zhou

Identification of vessel structures of different sizes in biomedical images is crucial in the diagnosis of many neurodegenerative diseases. However, the sparsity of good-quality annotations of such images makes the task of vessel…

MRI tumor segmentation remains a critical challenge in medical imaging, where volumetric analysis faces unique computational demands due to the complexity of 3D data. The spatially sequential arrangement of adjacent MRI slices provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiacheng Lu , Hui Ding , Shiyu Zhang , Guoping Huo