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Diagnosis of hematological malignancies depends on accurate identification of white blood cells in peripheral blood smears. Deep learning techniques are emerging as a viable solution to scale and optimize this process by automatic cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

This paper presents a new mechanism to facilitate the training of mask transformers for efficient panoptic segmentation, democratizing its deployment. We observe that due to its high complexity, the training objective of panoptic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shuyang Sun , Weijun Wang , Qihang Yu , Andrew Howard , Philip Torr , Liang-Chieh Chen

Automatic cell image segmentation methods in connectomics produce merge and split errors, which require correction through proofreading. Previous research has identified the visual search for these errors as the bottleneck in interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Daniel Haehn , Verena Kaynig , James Tompkin , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

Principal component analysis (PCA) is largely adopted for chemical process monitoring and numerous PCA-based systems have been developed to solve various fault detection and diagnosis problems. Since PCA-based methods assume that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Haitao Zhao

Point-based interactive image segmentation can ease the burden of mask annotation in applications such as semantic segmentation and image editing. However, fully extracting the target mask with limited user inputs remains challenging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chaowei Fang , Ziyin Zhou , Junye Chen , Hanjing Su , Qingyao Wu , Guanbin Li

As Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are increasingly applied outside of the toy models in Artificial Life, there is a pressing need to understand how they behave and to build appropriate routes to interpret what they have learnt. By their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 James Stovold , Mia-Katrin Kvalsund , Harald Michael Ludwig , Varun Sharma , Alexander Mordvintsev

Recent extensions of Cellular Automata (CA) have incorporated key ideas from modern deep learning, dramatically extending their capabilities and catalyzing a new family of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) techniques. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mattie Tesfaldet , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Developing automated and semi-automated solutions for reconstructing wiring diagrams of the brain from electron micrographs is important for advancing the field of connectomics. While the ultimate goal is to generate a graph of neuron…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 William Gray Roncal , Colin Lea , Akira Baruah , Gregory D. Hager

When integrating computational tools such as automatic segmentation into clinical practice, it is of utmost importance to be able to assess the level of accuracy on new data, and in particular, to detect when an automatic method fails.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Vanya V. Valindria , Ioannis Lavdas , Wenjia Bai , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea G. Rockall , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Automated surface-anomaly detection using machine learning has become an interesting and promising area of research, with a very high and direct impact on the application domain of visual inspection. Deep-learning methods have become the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Domen Tabernik , Samo Šela , Jure Skvarč , Danijel Skočaj

Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Leixin Zhou , Xiaodong Wu

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Synthetic contrast enhancement offers fast image acquisition and eliminates the need for intravenous injection of contrast agent. This is particularly beneficial for breast imaging, where long acquisition times and high cost are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Daniel M. Lang , Richard Osuala , Veronika Spieker , Karim Lekadir , Rickmer Braren , Julia A. Schnabel

Today deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) push the limits for most computer vision problems, define trends, and set state-of-the-art results. In remote sensing tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation, CNNs reach the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Svetlana Illarionova , Sergey Nesteruk , Dmitrii Shadrin , Vladimir Ignatiev , Mariia Pukalchik , Ivan Oseledets

The segmentation module which precisely outlines the nodules is a crucial step in a computer-aided diagnosis(CAD) system. The most challenging part of such a module is how to achieve high accuracy of the segmentation, especially for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Xinliang Fu , Jiayin Zheng , Juanyun Mai , Yanbo Shao , Minghao Wang , Linyu Li , Zhaoqi Diao , Yulong Chen , Jianyu Xiao , Jian You , Airu Yin , Yang Yang , Xiangcheng Qiu , Jinsheng Tao , Bo Wang , Hua Ji

Automatic segmentation of neuronal topology is critical for handling large scale neuroimaging data, as it can greatly accelerate neuron annotation and analysis. However, the intricate morphology of neuronal branches and the occlusions among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Huayu Fu , Jiamin Li , Haozhi Qu , Xiaolin Hu , Zengcai Guo

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) have shown a remarkable ability to learn the required rules to "grow" images, classify morphologies, segment images, as well as to do general computation such as path-finding. We believe the inductive prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alexander Mordvintsev , Eyvind Niklasson , Ettore Randazzo