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We propose an approach to domain adaptation for semantic segmentation that is both practical and highly accurate. In contrast to previous work, we abandon the use of computationally involved adversarial objectives, network ensembles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

Despite the recent success of domain generalization in medical image segmentation, voxel-wise annotation for all source domains remains a huge burden. Semi-supervised domain generalization has been proposed very recently to combat this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Muyang Qiu , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

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 adaptation (UDA) has been vastly explored to alleviate domain shifts between source and target domains, by applying a well-performed model in an unlabeled target domain via supervision of a labeled source domain. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Nadya Shusharina , Ruth Lim , C-C Jay Kuo , Georges El Fakhri , Jonghye Woo

Medical image segmentation data inherently contain uncertainty. This can stem from both imperfect image quality and variability in labeling preferences on ambiguous pixels, which depend on annotator expertise and the clinical context of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Jiayuan Zhu , Junde Wu , Cheng Ouyang , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , J. Alison Noble

Recently deep learning methods, in particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to a massive breakthrough in the range of computer vision. Also, the large-scale annotated dataset is the essential key to a successful training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Chang Qi , Junyang Chen , Guizhi Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Yang Liu

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

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, but domain shift often leads to performance degradation when models are applied to unseen clinical domains. This challenge arises due to variations in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yingkai Wang , Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Yuhao Xiao , Haotian Wu , Yu Yao

Although new vision foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have significantly enhanced zero-shot image segmentation capabilities, reliance on human-provided prompts poses significant challenges in adapting SAM2 to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Yuheng Bu , Kuang Gong

Surgical tool segmentation in endoscopic images is the first step towards pose estimation and (sub-)task automation in challenging minimally invasive surgical operations. While many approaches in the literature have shown great results…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Cristian da Costa Rocha , Nicolas Padoy , Benoit Rosa

This paper investigates an extremely challenging problem: barely-supervised volumetric medical image segmentation (BSS). A BSS training dataset consists of two parts: 1) a barely-annotated labeled set, where each labeled image contains only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Junming Su , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

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

Surgical tool detection in minimally invasive surgery is an essential part of computer-assisted interventions. Current approaches are mostly based on supervised methods which require large fully labeled data to train supervised models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Mansoor Ali , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Sharib Ali

Any novel medical imaging modality that differs from previous protocols e.g. in the number of imaging channels, introduces a new domain that is heterogeneous from previous ones. This common medical imaging scenario is rarely considered in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Eleni Chiou , Francesco Giganti , Shonit Punwani , Iasonas Kokkinos , Eleftheria Panagiotaki

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is a challenging and hot issue due to the large amount of unlabeled data. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has proven to be advantageous in incorporating unclassified information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Lushuang Wang , Tao Zhuo , Yinghui Xing

Medical ultrasound imaging is ubiquitous, but manual analysis struggles to keep pace. Automated segmentation can help but requires large labeled datasets, which are scarce. Semi-supervised learning leveraging both unlabeled and limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yaxiong Chen , Yujie Wang , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods heavily rely on fully supervised training, which requires a large amount of labeled data with time-consuming pixel-wise annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunqi Gu , Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Kelei He , Chen Gong , Huazhu Fu

Synthetic data is being used lately for training deep neural networks in computer vision applications such as object detection, object segmentation and 6D object pose estimation. Domain randomization hereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Parth Rawal , Mrunal Sompura , Wolfgang Hintze

Vision foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM), pretrained on large-scale natural image datasets, often struggle in medical image segmentation due to a lack of domain-specific adaptation. In clinical practice, fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zelin Liu , Sicheng Dong , Bocheng Li , Yixuan Yang , Jiacheng Ruan , Chenxu Zhou , Suncheng Xiang

In medical image analysis, semi-supervised learning is an effective method to extract knowledge from a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. This paper focuses on a popular pipeline known as self learning, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Jianzhong He , Zijie Yang , Qi Tian