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Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

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Deep learning has greatly advanced medical image segmentation, but its success relies heavily on fully supervised learning, which requires dense annotations that are costly and time-consuming for 3D volumetric scans. Barely-supervised…

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Deep learning has revolutionized the accurate segmentation of diseases in medical imaging. However, achieving such results requires training with numerous manual voxel annotations. This requirement presents a challenge for whole-body…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Matthias Hadlich , Zdravko Marinov , Moon Kim , Enrico Nasca , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, the investigation of label-efficient methodology for medical image segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on the efficient utilization of weak annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Junwen Pan , Qi Bi , Yanzhan Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Cheng Bian

Segmentation algorithms for medical images are widely studied for various clinical and research purposes. In this paper, we propose a new and efficient method for medical image segmentation under noisy labels. The method operates under a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Ziyang Wang , Zhengdong Zhang , Irina Voiculescu

Although active learning (AL) in segmentation tasks enables experts to annotate selected regions of interest (ROIs) instead of entire images, it remains highly challenging, labor-intensive, and cognitively demanding due to the blurry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md Shazid Islam , Shreyangshu Bera , Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Dense annotations, such as segmentation masks, are expensive and time-consuming to obtain, especially for 3D medical images where expert voxel-wise labeling is required. Weakly supervised approaches aim to address this limitation, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Richard Petersen , Fredrik Kahl , Jennifer Alvén

Current methods focusing on medical image segmentation suffer from incorrect annotations, which is known as the noisy label issue. Most medical image segmentation with noisy labels methods utilize either noise transition matrix,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zicheng Wang , Zhen Zhao , Erjian Guo , Luping Zhou

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for medical image segmentation, reducing the reliance on extensive expert annotations. Meanwhile, vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaqi Guo , Mingzhen Li , Hanyu Su , Santiago López , Lexiaozi Fan , Daniel Kim , Aggelos Katsaggelos

State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation are based on deep neural networks trained on large-scale labeled datasets. Acquiring such datasets would incur large annotation costs, especially for dense pixel-level prediction tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Xun Xu , Lining Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Delineating 3D blood vessels is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment, however, is challenging due to complex structure variations and varied imaging conditions. Supervised deep learning has demonstrated its superior capacity in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Huai Chen , Xiuying Wang , Lisheng Wang

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

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Incorporating various modes of information into the machine learning procedure is becoming a new trend. And data from various source can provide more information than single one no matter they are heterogeneous or homogeneous. Existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xiao Wang , Tao Sun , Rui Yang , Chenglong Li , Bin Luo , Jin Tang

Medical image segmentation is critical for computer-aided diagnosis. However, dense pixel-level annotation is time-consuming and expensive, and medical datasets often exhibit severe class imbalance. Such imbalance causes minority structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yingxue Su , Yiheng Zhong , Keying Zhu , Zimu Zhang , Zhuoru Zhang , Yifang Wang , Yuxin Zhang , Jingxin Liu

Many successful methods developed for medical image analysis that are based on machine learning use supervised learning approaches, which often require large datasets annotated by experts to achieve high accuracy. However, medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Banafshe Felfeliyan , Abhilash Hareendranathan , Gregor Kuntze , David Cornell , Nils D. Forkert , Jacob L. Jaremko , Janet L. Ronsky

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte