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Medical image segmentation is a relevant task as it serves as the first step for several diagnosis processes, thus it is indispensable in clinical usage. Whilst major success has been reported using supervised techniques, they assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Lihao Liu , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Medical image segmentation is inherently uncertain. For a given image, there may be multiple plausible segmentation hypotheses, and physicians will often disagree on lesion and organ boundaries. To be suited to real-world application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 João Lourenço Silva , Arlindo L. Oliveira

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

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

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, the investigation of label-efficient methodology for medical image segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on the efficient utilization of weak annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Junwen Pan , Qi Bi , Yanzhan Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Cheng Bian

Due to the lack of quality annotation in medical imaging community, semi-supervised learning methods are highly valued in image semantic segmentation tasks. In this paper, an advanced consistency-aware pseudo-label-based self-ensembling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Ziyang Wang , Tianze Li , Jian-Qing Zheng , Baoru Huang

Ultrasound imaging plays a critical role in the early detection of breast cancer. Accurate identification and segmentation of lesions are essential steps in clinical practice, requiring methods to assist physicians in lesion segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xin Yue , Xiaoling Liu , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Suqin Liu , Zhikai Yang , Guanghui Fu

The application of deep learning to medical image segmentation has been hampered due to the lack of abundant pixel-level annotated data. Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a promising strategy for breaking the deadlock. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoang Shen , Guokai Zhang , Huilin Lai , Jihao Luo , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

Semantic segmentation of brain tumours is a fundamental task in medical image analysis that can help clinicians in diagnosing the patient and tracking the progression of any malignant entities. Accurate segmentation of brain lesions is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Aditya Kasliwal , Sankarshanaa Sagaram , Laven Srivastava , Pratinav Seth , Adil Khan

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Accurate skin-lesion segmentation remains a key technical challenge for computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Convolutional neural networks, while effective, are constrained by limited receptive fields and thus struggle to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengyang Yu , Haoquan Wang , Gerard Marks , Tahar Kechadi , Laurence T. Yang , Sahraoui Dhelim , Nyothiri Aung

The task of medical image segmentation presents unique challenges, necessitating both localized and holistic semantic understanding to accurately delineate areas of interest, such as critical tissues or aberrant features. This complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Pranav Singh , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Jacopo Cirrone

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

Fine-grained glomerular subtyping is central to kidney biopsy interpretation, but clinically valuable labels are scarce and difficult to obtain. Existing computational pathology approaches instead tend to evaluate coarse diseased…

Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Xue Feng , Nicholas Tustison , Craig Meyer

Precise and automated segmentation of the liver and its tumor within CT scans plays a pivotal role in swift diagnosis and the development of optimal treatment plans for individuals with liver diseases and malignancies. However, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Jasmer Singh Sanjotra , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Shubhi Bansal , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

Semi-supervised learning has become 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Shengbo Gao , Ziji Zhang , Jiechao Ma , Zihao Li , Shu Zhang

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) images provide crucial complementary information for accurate liver tumor segmentation (LiTS). State-of-the-art multi-phase LiTS methods usually fused cross-phase features through phase-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Yue Zhang , Chengtao Peng , Liying Peng , Huimin Huang , Ruofeng Tong , Lanfen Lin , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen , Qingqing Chen , Hongjie Hu , Zhiyi Peng

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

We have witnessed remarkable progress in foundation models in vision tasks. Currently, several recent works have utilized the segmenting anything model (SAM) to boost the segmentation performance in medical images, where most of them focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Haoran Wang , Lian Huai , Wenbin Li , Lei Qi , Xingqun Jiang , Yinghuan Shi