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Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Accurate training labels are a key component for multi-class medical image segmentation. Their annotation is costly and time-consuming because it requires domain expertise. This work aims to develop a dual-branch network and automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jianfei Liu , Christopher Parnell , Ronald M. Summers

The current success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in an increasingly broad range of tasks involving artificial intelligence strongly depends on the quality and quantity of labeled training data. In general, the scarcity of labeled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Shun Kiyono , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Label scarcity remains a major challenge in deep learning-based medical image segmentation. Recent studies use strong-weak pseudo supervision to leverage unlabeled data. However, performance is often hindered by inconsistencies between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Xiaoli Liu , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Recently, One-stage Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained increasing interest due to simplification over its cumbersome multi-stage counterpart. Limited by the inherent ambiguity of Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuanchen Wu , Xichen Ye , Kequan Yang , Jide Li , Xiaoqiang Li

Annotation scarcity has become a major obstacle for training powerful deep-learning models for medical image segmentation, restricting their deployment in clinical scenarios. To address it, semi-supervised learning by exploiting abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Qingjie Zeng , Yutong Xie , Zilin Lu , Mengkang Lu , Yicheng Wu , Yong Xia

Despite the availability of large datasets for tasks like image classification and image-text alignment, labeled data for more complex recognition tasks, such as detection and segmentation, is less abundant. In particular, for instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 François Porcher , Camille Couprie , Marc Szafraniec , Jakob Verbeek

Semi-supervised learning is increasingly popular in medical image segmentation due to its ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to extract additional information. However, most existing semi-supervised segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Rong Wu , Dehua Li , Cong Zhang

Unsupervised domain adaptive segmentation typically relies on self-training using pseudo labels predicted by a pre-trained network on an unlabeled target dataset. However, the noisy nature of such pseudo-labels presents a major bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Md Shazid Islam , Sayak Nag , Arindam Dutta , Miraj Ahmed , Fahim Faisal Niloy , Shreyangshu Bera , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Learning segmentation from noisy labels is an important task for medical image analysis due to the difficulty in acquiring highquality annotations. Most existing methods neglect the pixel correlation and structural prior in segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Shuailin Li , Zhitong Gao , Xuming He

This paper aims to solve the video object segmentation (VOS) task in a scribble-supervised manner, in which VOS models are not only trained by the sparse scribble annotations but also initialized with the sparse target scribbles for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zikun Zhou , Kaige Mao , Wenjie Pei , Hongpeng Wang , Yaowei Wang , Zhenyu He

Accurate segmentation of tissues and instruments in surgical scenes is annotation-intensive due to irregular shapes, thin structures, specularities, and frequent occlusions. While SAM models support point, box, and mask prompts, points are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Haonan Ping , Jian Jiang , Cheng Yuan , Qizhen Sun , Lv Wu , Yutong Ban

Semi-Supervised classification and segmentation methods have been widely investigated in medical image analysis. Both approaches can improve the performance of fully-supervised methods with additional unlabeled data. However, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chengdi Wang , Haofeng Li , Gang Wang , Shu Zhang , Weimin Li , Yizhou Yu

Domain shift has been a long-standing issue for medical image segmentation. Recently, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have achieved promising cross-modality segmentation performance by distilling knowledge from a label-rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Ziyuan Zhao , Kaixin Xu , Huai Zhe Yeo , Xulei Yang , Cuntai Guan

Recently, weakly-supervised image segmentation using weak annotations like scribbles has gained great attention in computer vision and medical image analysis, since such annotations are much easier to obtain compared to time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Qiuhui Chen , Haiying Lyu , Xinyue Hu , Yong Lu , Yi Hong

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li

Obtaining pixel-level annotations in the medical domain is both expensive and time-consuming, often requiring close collaboration between clinical experts and developers. Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Cheng Wang , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) efficiently reduces labor costs but meanwhile intrinsically suffers from the label noise due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Typically, the wrongly labeled instances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Xinghua Zhang , Bowen Yu , Tingwen Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Mengge Xue , Hongbo Xu

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is important for reducing the annotation cost for medical image segmentation models. State-of-the-art SSL methods such as Mean Teacher, FixMatch and Cross Pseudo Supervision (CPS) are mainly based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Weiren Zhao , Lanfeng Zhong , Xin Liao , Wenjun Liao , Sichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang