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Medical image segmentation, which aims to automatically extract anatomical or pathological structures, plays a key role in computer-aided diagnosis and disease analysis. Despite the problem has been widely studied, existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Open-vocabulary image segmentation aims to partition an image into semantic regions according to arbitrary text descriptions. However, complex visual scenes can be naturally decomposed into simpler parts and abstracted at multiple levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xudong Wang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Assigning meaning to parts of image data is the goal of semantic image segmentation. Machine learning methods, specifically supervised learning is commonly used in a variety of tasks formulated as semantic segmentation. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Shiwei Liu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) shows great promise for surgical applications, offering detailed insights into biological tissue differences beyond what the naked eye can perceive. Refined labelling efforts are underway to train vision systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Junwen Wang , Oscar Maccormac , William Rochford , Aaron Kujawa , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

Trained using only image class label, deep weakly supervised methods allow image classification and ROI segmentation for interpretability. Despite their success on natural images, they face several challenges over histology data where ROI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Despite the superior performance of Deep Learning (DL) on numerous segmentation tasks, the DL-based approaches are notoriously overconfident about their prediction with highly polarized label probability. This is often not desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Sungmin Hong , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Andrew Hoopes , Martin Bretzner , Markus D. Schirmer , Anne-Katrin Giese , Adrian V. Dalca , Polina Golland , Natalia S. Rost

This paper investigates a fundamental problem of scene understanding: how to parse a scene image into a structured configuration (i.e., a semantic object hierarchy with object interaction relations). We propose a deep architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ruimao Zhang , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang , Meng Wang , Wangmeng Zuo

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathologies is inherently ambiguous. For instance, structure borders may not be clearly visible or different experts may have different styles of annotating. The majority of current state-of-the-art…

Histopathological images (HI) encrypt resolution dependent heterogeneous textures & diverse color distribution variability, manifesting in micro-structural surface tissue convolutions. Also, inherently high coherency of cancerous cells…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Sawon Pratiher , Subhankar Chattoraj

Segmenting dental plaque from images of medical reagent staining provides valuable information for diagnosis and the determination of follow-up treatment plan. However, accurate dental plaque segmentation is a challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Jian Shi , Baoli Sun , Xinchen Ye , Zhihui Wang , Xiaolong Luo , Jin Liu , Heli Gao , Haojie Li

We propose a highly structured neural network architecture for semantic segmentation with an extremely small model size, suitable for low-power embedded and mobile platforms. Specifically, our architecture combines i) a Haar wavelet-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Michael Tschannen , Lukas Cavigelli , Fabian Mentzer , Thomas Wiatowski , Luca Benini

Token representations in high-dimensional latent spaces often exhibit redundancy, limiting computational efficiency and reducing structural coherence across model layers. Hierarchical latent space folding introduces a structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Fenella Harcourt , Naderdel Piero , Gilbert Sutherland , Daphne Holloway , Harriet Bracknell , Julian Ormsby

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

We present an automatic method for joint liver lesion segmentation and classification using a hierarchical fine-tuning framework. Our dataset is small, containing 332 2-D CT examinations with lesion annotated into 3 lesion types: cysts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 Michal Heker , Avi Ben-Cohen , Hayit Greenspan

In histopathological image analysis, feature extraction for classification is a challenging task due to the diversity of histology features suitable for each problem as well as presence of rich geometrical structures. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Tiep Huu Vu , Hojjat Seyed Mousavi , Vishal Monga , Arvind UK Rao , Ganesh Rao

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have proven effective for extracting monosemantic features from large language models (LLMs), yet these features are typically identified in isolation. However, broad evidence suggests that LLMs capture the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yifan Luo , Yang Zhan , Jiedong Jiang , Tianyang Liu , Mingrui Wu , Zhennan Zhou , Bin Dong

This paper demonstrates a self-supervised framework for learning voxel-wise coarse-to-fine representations tailored for dense downstream tasks. Our approach stems from the observation that existing methods for hierarchical representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Eytan Kats , Jochen G. Hirsch , Mattias P. Heinrich

Automated segmentation of anatomical sub-regions with high precision has become a necessity to enable the quantification and characterization of cells/ tissues in histology images. Currently, a machine learning model to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Hosein Barzekar , Hai Ngu , Han Hui Lin , Mohsen Hejrati , Steven Ray Valdespino , Sarah Chu , Baris Bingol , Somaye Hashemifar , Soumitra Ghosh

The aorta, the body's largest artery, is prone to pathologies such as dissection, aneurysm, and atherosclerosis, which often require timely intervention. Minimally invasive repairs involving branch vessels necessitate detailed 3D anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Pengcheng Shi

Deep learning has become increasingly important in remote sensing image classification due to its ability to extract semantic information from complex data. Classification tasks often include predefined label hierarchies that represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Giulio Weikmann , Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone