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Automatic polyp segmentation is helpful to assist clinical diagnosis and treatment. In daily clinical practice, clinicians exhibit robustness in identifying polyps with both location and size variations. It is uncertain if deep segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Runpu Wei , Zijin Yin , Kongming Liang , Min Min , Chengwei Pan , Gang Yu , Haonan Huang , Yan Liu , Zhanyu Ma

In the era of AIGC, the demand for low-budget or even on-device applications of diffusion models emerged. In terms of compressing the Stable Diffusion models (SDMs), several approaches have been proposed, and most of them leveraged the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dingkun Zhang , Sijia Li , Chen Chen , Qingsong Xie , Haonan Lu

Segmenting tumors in histological images is vital for cancer diagnosis. While fully supervised models excel with pixel-level annotations, creating such annotations is labor-intensive and costly. Accurate histopathology image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yinsheng He , Xingyu Li , Roger J. Zemp

Surgical segmentation is pivotal for scene understanding yet remains hindered by annotation scarcity and semantic inconsistency across diverse procedures. Existing approaches typically fine-tune natural foundation models (e.g., SAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qing Xu , Kun Yuan , Yuxiang Luo , Yuhao Zhai , Wenting Duan , Nassir Navab , Zhen Chen

Semantic segmentation has a wide array of applications ranging from medical-image analysis, scene understanding, autonomous driving and robotic navigation. This work deals with medical image segmentation and in particular with accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Alessandra Lumini , Loris Nanni , Gianluca Maguolo

Objective: Depth estimation is crucial for endoscopic navigation and manipulation, but obtaining ground-truth depth maps in real clinical scenarios, such as the colon, is challenging. This study aims to develop a robust framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sijia Du , Chengfeng Zhou , Suncheng Xiang , Jianwei Xu , Dahong Qian

Salient Object Detection (SOD) with deep learning often requires substantial computational resources and large annotated datasets, making it impractical for resource-constrained applications. Lightweight models address computational demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Leonardo M. Joao , Jancarlo F. Gomes , Silvio J. F. Guimaraes , Ewa Kijak , Alexandre X. Falcao

This paper is created to explore deep learning models and algorithms that results in highest accuracy in detecting polyp on colonoscopy images. Previous studies implemented deep learning using convolution neural network (CNN) algorithm in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Ariel E. Isidro , Arnel C. Fajardo , Alexander A. Hernandez

Accurate vessel segmentation is critical for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis and surgical planning, yet remains challenging due to thin, branching structures and low texture contrast. While foundation models like the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Suzhong Fu , Rui Sun , Xuan Ding , Jingqi Dong , Yiming Yang , Yao Zhu , Min Chang Jordan Ren , Delin Deng , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Vision foundation models like DINOv2 demonstrate remarkable potential in medical imaging despite their origin in natural image domains. However, their design inherently works best for uni-modal image analysis, limiting their effectiveness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Daniel Scholz , Ayhan Can Erdur , Viktoria Ehm , Anke Meyer-Baese , Jan C. Peeken , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

In recent years, Denoising Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable success in generating semantically valuable pixel-wise representations for image generative modeling. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end framework, called…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zhaohu Xing , Liang Wan , Huazhu Fu , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu

Deploying medical image segmentation models in routine clinical workflows is often constrained by on-premises infrastructure, where computational resources are fixed and cloud-based inference may be restricted by governance and security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Qizhen Lan , Aaron Choi , Jun Ma , Bo Wang , Zhaogming Zhao , Xiaoqian Jiang , Yu-Chun Hsu

Multi-centre colonoscopy images from various medical centres exhibit distinct complicating factors and overlays that impact the image content, contingent on the specific acquisition centre. Existing Deep Segmentation networks struggle to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Valentina Corbetta , Regina Beets-Tan , Wilson Silva

Developing clinically useful cell-level analysis tools in digital pathology remains challenging due to limitations in dataset granularity, inconsistent annotations, high computational demands, and difficulties integrating new technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikita Shvetsov , Thomas K. Kilvaer , Masoud Tafavvoghi , Anders Sildnes , Kajsa Møllersen , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Lars Ailo Bongo

Dataset distillation aims to distill the knowledge of a large-scale real dataset into small yet informative synthetic data such that a model trained on it performs as well as a model trained on the full dataset. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Lucy Z. Liu , Ehsan Amjadian , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Foundation models have shown strong performance in multi-object segmentation with visual prompts, yet histopathology images remain challenging due to high cellular density, heterogeneity, and the gap between pixel-level supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yonghuang Wu , Wenwen Zeng , Xuan Xie , Chengqian Zhao , Guoqing Wu , Jinhua Yu

Foundation models (FM) have transformed computational pathology but remain computationally prohibitive for clinical deployment due to their massive parameter counts and high-magnification processing requirements. Here, we introduce XMAG, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyu Su , Abdul Rehman Akbar , Usama Sajjad , Anil V. Parwani , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

Domain generalization is critical in computational pathology (CPath) due to inherent domain shifts caused by variations in staining protocols, scanner devices, and imaging settings across clinical centers. Vision-language models (VLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Amir Mohammad Ezzati , Alireza Malekhosseini , Armin Khosravi , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Recently, large models (Segment Anything model) came on the scene to provide a new baseline for polyp segmentation tasks. This demonstrates that large models with a sufficient image level prior can achieve promising performance on a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Wu , Wei Wang , Yeying Jin , Xiuyi Jia

Colorectal polyp segmentation is critical for early detection of colorectal cancer, yet weak and low contrast boundaries significantly limit automated accuracy. Existing deep models either blur fine edge details or rely on handcrafted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Zhe Yee Tan , Ashwaq Qasem