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High accuracy medical image classification can be limited by the costs of acquiring more data as well as the time and expertise needed to label existing images. In this paper, we apply active learning to medical image classification, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Emma Slade , Kim M. Branson

Quantum computing offers the potential for superior computational capabilities, particularly for data-intensive tasks. However, the current state of quantum hardware puts heavy restrictions on input size. To address this, hybrid transfer…

Pretraining CNN models (i.e., UNet) through self-supervision has become a powerful approach to facilitate medical image segmentation under low annotation regimes. Recent contrastive learning methods encourage similar global representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengwei Ren , Kaize Ding , Guido Gerig , Yalin Wang

In this paper, we introduce a novel semi-supervised learning framework tailored for medical image segmentation. Central to our approach is the innovative Multi-scale Text-aware ViT-CNN Fusion scheme. This scheme adeptly combines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yixing Lu , Zhaoxin Fan , Min Xu

Contrastive learning (CL) has become a powerful approach for learning representations from unlabeled images. However, existing CL methods focus predominantly on visual appearance features while neglecting topological characteristics (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guangyu Meng , Pengfei Gu , Peixian Liang , John P. Lalor , Erin Wolf Chambers , Danny Z. Chen

The rapid growth of computer vision and increasingly complex image recognition tasks has exposed fundamental computational limitations of classical machine learning models, motivating the exploration of quantum computing as an emerging new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sudip Vhaduri , Ryan Gammon , Sayanton Dibbo

Accurate and robust medical image classification is paramount for early disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, challenges such as limited annotated data, high intra-class variability, and subtle inter-class differences often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Joao Florindo , Viviane Moura

Over the past decade, machine learning revolutionized vision-based quality assessment for which convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have now become the standard. In this paper, we consider a potential next step in this development and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Barry D. Reese , Marek Kowalik , Christian Metzl , Christian Bauckhage , Eldar Sultanow

Medical image annotation is essential for diagnosing diseases, yet manual annotation is time-consuming, costly, and prone to variability among experts. To address these challenges, we propose an automated explainable annotation system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Basma Nasir , Tehseen Zia , Muhammad Nawaz , Catarina Moreira

In the field of automatic Electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis, due to the relatively limited amount of labeled data, how to build a robust ECG pretrained model based on unlabeled data is a key area of focus for researchers. Recent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiaoyu Sun , Yang Yang , Xunde Dong

We compare the performance of randomized classical and quantum neural networks (NNs) as well as classical and quantum-classical hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of supervised binary image classification. We keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Daniel Basilewitsch , João F. Bravo , Christian Tutschku , Frederick Struckmeier

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

As quantum computers become increasingly practical, so does the prospect of using quantum computation to improve upon traditional algorithms. Kernel methods in machine learning is one area where such improvements could be realized in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Ara Ghukasyan , Jack S. Baker , Oktay Goktas , Juan Carrasquilla , Santosh Kumar Radha

Fundamental differences between natural and medical images have recently favored the use of self-supervised learning (SSL) over ImageNet transfer learning for medical image applications. Differences between image types are primarily due to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-13 Lambert T. Leong , Michael C. Wong , Yannik Glaser , Thomas Wolfgruber , Steven B. Heymsfield , Peter Sadowski , John A. Shepherd

Medical image visual question answering (VQA) is a task to answer clinical questions, given a radiographic image, which is a challenging problem that requires a model to integrate both vision and language information. To solve medical VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Lin Tan , Jinying Liao , Shenjun Zhong

Quantum embedding is a fundamental prerequisite for applying quantum machine learning techniques to classical data, and has substantial impacts on performance outcomes. In this study, we present Neural Quantum Embedding (NQE), a method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Tak Hur , Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park

Identifying high-quality and easily accessible annotated samples poses a notable challenge in medical image analysis. Transfer learning techniques, leveraging pre-training data, offer a flexible solution to this issue. However, the impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Asmaa Abbas , Mohamed Gaber , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

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

We implement a hybrid quantum-classical model for image classification that compresses MNIST digit images into a low-dimensional feature space and then maps these features onto a 5-qubit quantum state. First, an autoencoder compresses each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Soumyadip Sarkar

A label-efficient paradigm in computer vision is based on self-supervised contrastive pre-training on unlabeled data followed by fine-tuning with a small number of labels. Making practical use of a federated computing environment in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Nanqing Dong , Irina Voiculescu