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The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Despite the progress of interactive image segmentation methods, high-quality pixel-level annotation is still time-consuming and laborious - a bottleneck for several deep learning applications. We take a step back to propose interactive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jord{ã}o Bragantini , Alexandre X Falc{ã}o , Laurent Najman

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising solution to alleviate the annotation burden of deep learning-based medical image segmentation models. While recent advances in foundation model-driven SSL have pushed the boundary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Bichun Xu , Judong Luo , Zhigang Wu , Yu Fu , Zixin Hu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Whole-slide image (WSI) classification is a challenging task because 1) patches from WSI lack annotation, and 2) WSI possesses unnecessary variability, e.g., stain protocol. Recently, Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) has made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Joohyung Lee , Heejeong Nam , Kwanhyung Lee , Sangchul Hahn

Supervised object detection has been proven to be successful in many benchmark datasets achieving human-level performances. However, acquiring a large amount of labeled image samples for supervised detection training is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bishwo Adhikari , Esa Rahtu , Heikki Huttunen

Automated detection of mitotic figures in histopathology images has seen vast improvements, thanks to modern deep learning-based pipelines. Application of these methods, however, is in practice limited by strong variability of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Marc Aubreville , Christof Bertram , Mitko Veta , Robert Klopfleisch , Nikolas Stathonikos , Katharina Breininger , Natalie ter Hoeve , Francesco Ciompi , Andreas Maier

Automated digital histopathology image segmentation is an important task to help pathologists diagnose tumors and cancer subtypes. For pathological diagnosis of cancer subtypes, pathologists usually change the magnification of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Hiroki Tokunaga , Yuki Teramoto , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Ryoma Bise

Registration of serial whole-slide histopathological images (WSIs) is critical for enabling direct comparison across diverse stains and for preparing paired datasets in artificial intelligence (AI) workflows such as virtual staining and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zeyu Liu , Shengwei Ding

The performance of deep neural networks scales with dataset size and label quality, rendering the efficient mitigation of low-quality data annotations crucial for building robust and cost-effective systems. Existing strategies to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Francesco Di Salvo , Sebastian Doerrich , Ines Rieger , Christian Ledig

Ensuring reliable model performance across diverse domains is a critical challenge in computational pathology. A particular source of variability in Whole-Slide Images is introduced by differences in digital scanners, thus calling for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jeongun Ryu , Heon Song , Seungeun Lee , Soo Ick Cho , Jiwon Shin , Kyunghyun Paeng , Sérgio Pereira

The fine-grained annotations in whole slide images (WSIs) show the boundaries of various pathological regions. However, generating such detailed annotation is often costly, whereas the coarse annotations are relatively simpler to produce.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bingjian Yao , Weiping Lin , Yan He , Zheng Wang , Liangsheng Wang

Shortage of fully annotated datasets has been a limiting factor in developing deep learning based image segmentation algorithms and the problem becomes more pronounced in multi-organ segmentation. In this paper, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xi Fang , Pingkun Yan

Precise medical image segmentation is fundamental for enabling computer aided diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Traditional models that rely solely on visual features often struggle when confronted with ambiguous or low contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ashfak Yeafi , Parthaw Goswami , Md Khairul Islam , Ashifa Islam Shamme

Annotated images are required for both supervised model training and evaluation in image classification. Manually annotating images is arduous and expensive, especially for multi-labeled images. A recent trend for conducting such laboursome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jianzhe Lin , Tianze Yu , Z. Jane Wang

Cell detection in histopathology images is of great interest to clinical practice and research, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable cell detection results. Typically, to train CNN-based cell detection models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zipei Zhao , Fengqian Pang , Yaou Liu , Zhiwen Liu , Chuyang Ye

Digital pathology involves converting physical tissue slides into high-resolution Whole Slide Images (WSIs), which pathologists analyze for disease-affected tissues. However, large histology slides with numerous microscopic fields pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Computer vision models trained on Google Street View images can create material cadastres. However, current approaches need manually annotated datasets that are difficult to obtain and often have class imbalance. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Josie Harrison , Alexander Hollberg , Yinan Yu

Active learning enhances annotation efficiency by selecting the most revealing samples for labeling, thereby reducing reliance on extensive human input. Previous methods in semantic segmentation have centered on individual pixels or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinchao Ge , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Bowen Zhang , Akide Liu , Yang Zhao , Shuwen Zhao