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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

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation offers a promising solution for large-scale medical image analysis by significantly reducing the annotation burden while achieving comparable performance. Employing this method exhibits a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhenxi Zhang , Ran Ran , Chunna Tian , Heng Zhou , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Zhicheng Jiao

Semi-supervised segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging since the amount of annotated medical data is often scarce and there are many blurred pixels near the adhesive edges or in the low-contrast regions. To address the issues,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yicheng Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Qianyi Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai

Despite the recent progress in medical image segmentation with scribble-based annotations, the segmentation results of most models are still not ro-bust and generalizable enough in open environments. Evidential deep learn-ing (EDL) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yitong Yang , Xinli Xu , Haigen Hu , Haixia Long , Qianwei Zhou , Qiu Guan

Background and objective: Medical image segmentation is a core task in various clinical applications. However, acquiring large-scale, fully annotated medical image datasets is both time-consuming and costly. Scribble annotations, as a form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Peilin Zhang , Shaouxan Wua , Jun Feng , Zhuo Jin , Zhizezhang Gao , Jingkun Chen , Yaqiong Xing , Xiao Zhang

A large labeled dataset is a key to the success of supervised deep learning, but for medical image segmentation, it is highly challenging to obtain sufficient annotated images for model training. In many scenarios, unannotated images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hao Zheng , Jun Han , Hongxiao Wang , Lin Yang , Zhuo Zhao , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Supervised learning algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Networks have become the benchmark for medical image segmentation tasks, but their effectiveness heavily relies on a large amount of labeled data. However, annotating medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Tao Wang , Yuanbin Chen , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Bizhe Bai , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Deep learning in medical imaging is often limited by scarce and imbalanced annotated data. We present SSGNet, a unified framework that combines class specific generative modeling with iterative semisupervised pseudo labeling to enhance both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mosong Ma , Tania Stathaki , Michalis Lazarou

Medical image segmentation annotations exhibit variations among experts due to the ambiguous boundaries of segmented objects and backgrounds in medical images. Although using multiple annotations for each image in the fully-supervised has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Shuai Wang , Tengjin Weng , Jingyi Wang , Yang Shen , Zhidong Zhao , Yixiu Liu , Pengfei Jiao , Zhiming Cheng , Yaqi Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown outstanding performance in medical image segmentation tasks. The usual problem when training supervised deep learning methods is the lack of labeled data which is time-consuming and costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Suman Sedai , Bhavna Antony , Ravneet Rai , Katie Jones , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , Wollstein Gadi , Rahil Garnavi

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

The deployment of advanced deep learning models for medical image segmentation is often constrained by the requirement for extensively annotated datasets. Weakly-supervised learning, which allows less precise labels, has become a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Hoang-An Vo , Phuoc-Sang Dang

Semi-supervised learning has received considerable attention for its potential to leverage abundant unlabeled data to enhance model robustness. Pseudo labeling is a widely used strategy in semi supervised learning. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbin Chen , Yuanbo Zhou , Longxuan Zhao , Tao Tan , Tong Tong

In this work, we introduce Scribbles for All, a label and training data generation algorithm for semantic segmentation trained on scribble labels. Training or fine-tuning semantic segmentation models with weak supervision has become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Jan Eric Lenssen , Bernt Schiele

Semi-supervised learning relaxes the need of large pixel-wise labeled datasets for image segmentation by leveraging unlabeled data. The scarcity of high-quality labeled data remains a major challenge in medical image analysis due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jun Li

The limited availability of annotated data in medical imaging makes semi-supervised learning increasingly appealing for its ability to learn from imperfect supervision. Recently, teacher-student frameworks have gained popularity for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Vi Vu , Ba-Thinh Lam , Phat Huynh , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Supervised learning has proved effective for medical image analysis. However, it can utilize only the small labeled portion of data; it fails to leverage the large amounts of unlabeled data that is often available in medical image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Gaurav Fotedar , Nima Tajbakhsh , Shilpa Ananth , Xiaowei Ding

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from MRI is limited by expensive annotations and data heterogeneity across scanners and sites. We propose a semi-supervised teacher-student framework that combines an uncertainty-aware pseudo-labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiaming Liu , Cheng Ding , Daoqiang Zhang