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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

We present SAM4EM, a novel approach for 3D segmentation of complex neural structures in electron microscopy (EM) data by leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) alongside advanced fine-tuning strategies. Our contributions include the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Uzair Shah , Marco Agus , Daniya Boges , Vanessa Chiappini , Mahmood Alzubaidi , Jens Schneider , Markus Hadwiger , Pierre J. Magistretti , Mowafa Househ , Corrado Calı

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Zero-shot instance segmentation aims to detect and precisely segment objects of unseen categories without any training samples. Since the model is trained on seen categories, there is a strong bias that the model tends to classify all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Wei Jiang

Multimodal self-supervised pretraining offers a promising route to cancer prognosis by integrating histopathology whole-slide images, gene expression, and pathology reports, yet most existing approaches require fully paired and complete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kai Yu , Shuang Zhou , Yiran Song , Zaifu Zhan , Jie Peng , Kaixiong Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Feng Xie , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu , Mingquan Lin , Rui Zhang

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Surgical instrument segmentation is an essential component of computer-assisted and robotic surgery systems. Vision-based segmentation models typically produce outputs limited to a predefined set of instrument categories, which restricts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tae-Min Choi , Juyoun Park

We propose the SAL (Segment Anything in Lidar) method consisting of a text-promptable zero-shot model for segmenting and classifying any object in Lidar, and a pseudo-labeling engine that facilitates model training without manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Aljoša Ošep , Tim Meinhardt , Francesco Ferroni , Neehar Peri , Deva Ramanan , Laura Leal-Taixé

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Large-scale pretrained vision backbones have transformed computer vision by providing powerful feature extractors that enable various downstream tasks, including training-free approaches like visual prompting for semantic segmentation.…

Curating annotations for medical image segmentation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task that requires domain expertise, resulting in "narrowly" focused deep learning (DL) models with limited translational utility. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Pranav Kulkarni , Adway Kanhere , Dharmam Savani , Andrew Chan , Devina Chatterjee , Paul H. Yi , Vishwa S. Parekh

Unsupervised pre-training has been proven as an effective approach to boost various downstream tasks given limited labeled data. Among various methods, contrastive learning learns a discriminative representation by constructing positive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Masked language models like BERT can perform text classification in a zero-shot fashion by reformulating downstream tasks as text infilling. However, this approach is highly sensitive to the template used to prompt the model, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Mozes van de Kar , Mengzhou Xia , Danqi Chen , Mikel Artetxe

We introduce Scaffold Prompt Tuning (ScaPT), a novel prompt-based framework for adapting large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) pre-trained models to downstream tasks, with high parameter efficiency and improved…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-21 Zijian Dong , Yilei Wu , Zijiao Chen , Yichi Zhang , Yueming Jin , Juan Helen Zhou

Automatic segmentation of medical images is crucial in modern clinical workflows. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a versatile tool for image segmentation without specific domain training, but it requires human prompts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yunxiang Li , Bowen Jing , Zihan Li , Jing Wang , You Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has established itself as a powerful zero-shot image segmentation model, enabled by efficient point-centric annotation and prompt-based models. While click and brush interactions are both well explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Frano Rajič , Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Nucleus instance segmentation from histopathology images suffers from the extremely laborious and expert-dependent annotation of nucleus instances. As a promising solution to this task, annotation-efficient deep learning paradigms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ming , Zihao Wu , Jie Yang , Danyi Li , Yuan Gao , Changxin Gao , Gui-Song Xia , Yuanqing Li , Li Liang , Jin-Gang Yu

Rare cancers comprise 20-25% of all malignancies but face major diagnostic challenges due to limited expert availability-especially in pediatric oncology, where they represent over 70% of cases. While pathology vision-language (VL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Dexuan He , Xiao Zhou , Wenbin Guan , Liyuan Zhang , Xiaoman Zhang , Sinuo Xu , Ge Wang , Lifeng Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Sun , Yanfeng Wang , Kun Sun , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

The advent of Large Vision Models (LVMs) offers new opportunities for few-shot medical image segmentation. However, existing training-free methods based on LVMs fail to effectively utilize negative prompts, leading to poor performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yufei Liu , Haoke Xiao , Jiaxing Chai , Yongcun Zhang , Rong Wang , Zijie Meng , Zhiming Luo