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Active learning (AL) has the potential to drastically reduce annotation costs in 3D biomedical image segmentation, where expert labeling of volumetric data is both time-consuming and expensive. Yet, existing AL methods are unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Carsten T. Lüth , Jeremias Traub , Kim-Celine Kahl , Till J. Bungert , Lukas Klein , Lars Krämer , Paul F. Jäger , Klaus Maier-Hein , Fabian Isensee

In recent years, deep learning has become a breakthrough technique in assisting medical image diagnosis. Supervised learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) provides state-of-the-art performance and has served as a benchmark for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Active learning (AL) techniques reduce labeling costs for training neural machine translation (NMT) models by selecting smaller representative subsets from unlabeled data for annotation. Diversity sampling techniques select heterogeneous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Agha Ali Raza

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in biomedical image processing, which recent breakthroughs in deep learning have allowed to improve. However, deep learning methods in general are not yet widely used in practice since they require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Melanie Lubrano di Scandalea , Christian S. Perone , Mathieu Boudreau , Julien Cohen-Adad

Deep learning-based techniques have proven effective in polyp segmentation tasks when provided with sufficient pixel-wise labeled data. However, the high cost of manual annotation has created a bottleneck for model generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , De-Jun Fan , Feng Gao , Xiao-Jian Wu , Guanbin Li

The development of X-Ray microscopy (XRM) technology has enabled non-destructive inspection of semiconductor structures for defect identification. Deep learning is widely used as the state-of-the-art approach to perform visual analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Xun Xu , Jie Wang , Richard Chang , 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

Image segmentation is fundamental to microstructural analysis for defect identification and structure-property correlation, yet remains challenging due to pronounced heterogeneity in materials images arising from varied processing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sanjeev S. Navaratna , Nikhil Thawari , Gunashekhar Mari , Amritha V P , Murugaiyan Amirthalingam , Rohit Batra

Training high-quality instance segmentation models requires an abundance of labeled images with instance masks and classifications, which is often expensive to procure. Active learning addresses this challenge by striving for optimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ke Yu , Stephen Albro , Giulia DeSalvo , Suraj Kothawade , Abdullah Rashwan , Sasan Tavakkol , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Xiaoqi Yin

Modern systems that rely on Machine Learning (ML) for predictive modelling, may suffer from the cold-start problem: supervised models work well but, initially, there are no labels, which are costly or slow to obtain. This problem is even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ricardo Barata , Miguel Leite , Ricardo Pacheco , Marco O. P. Sampaio , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

Conventional active learning (AL) frameworks aim to reduce the cost of data annotation by actively requesting the labeling for the most informative data points. However, introducing AL to data hungry deep learning algorithms has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

Active learning (AL) combines data labeling and model training to minimize the labeling cost by prioritizing the selection of high value data that can best improve model performance. In pool-based active learning, accessible unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mingfei Gao , Zizhao Zhang , Guo Yu , Sercan O. Arik , Larry S. Davis , Tomas Pfister

Recent successes in learning-based image classification, however, heavily rely on the large number of annotated training samples, which may require considerable human efforts. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Keze Wang , Dongyu Zhang , Ya Li , Ruimao Zhang , Liang Lin

Active learning (AL) repeatedly trains the classifier with the minimum labeling budget to improve the current classification model. The training process is usually supervised by an uncertainty evaluation strategy. However, the uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xiaofeng Cao

Active learning strives to reduce the need for costly data annotation, by repeatedly querying an annotator to label the most informative samples from a pool of unlabeled data, and then training a model from these samples. We identify two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jiarong Wei , Yancong Lin , Holger Caesar

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

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

The availability of large labeled datasets is the key component for the success of deep learning. However, annotating labels on large datasets is generally time-consuming and expensive. Active learning is a research area that addresses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Felix Buchert , Nassir Navab , Seong Tae Kim

Active Learning aims to optimize performance while minimizing annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabelled pool. Traditional uncertainty sampling often leads to sampling bias by choosing similar uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tejaswi Kasarla , Abhishek Jha , Faye Tervoort , Rita Cucchiara , Pascal Mettes

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng