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Accurate segmentation of brain vessels is crucial for cerebrovascular disease diagnosis and treatment. However, existing methods face challenges in capturing small vessels and handling datasets that are partially or ambiguously annotated.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Fengming Lin , Yan Xia , Nishant Ravikumar , Qiongyao Liu , Michael MacRaild , Alejandro F Frangi

Medical referring image segmentation (MRIS) requires pixel-level masks aligned with textual descriptions of anatomical locations, making annotation costly in low-label regimes. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuchen Li , Zhen Zhao , Yi Liu , Luping Zhou

Semi-supervised learning, i.e., training networks with both labeled and unlabeled data, has made significant progress recently. However, existing works have primarily focused on image classification tasks and neglected object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Zijian He , Chia-Wen Kuo , Kan Chen , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Zsolt Kira , Peter Vajda

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

This work introduces a novel framework for brain tumor segmentation leveraging pre-trained GANs and Unet architectures. By combining a global anomaly detection module with a refined mask generation network, the proposed model accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Qifei Cui , Xinyu Lu

Accurate segmentation of brain tumour sub-regions from multi-parametric MRI is critical for treatment planning yet remains challenging due to morphological variability, class imbalance, and overlapping appearances of tumour regions across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hasaan Maqsood , Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

We present a novel confidence refinement scheme that enhances pseudo labels in semi-supervised semantic segmentation. Unlike existing methods, which filter pixels with low-confidence predictions in isolation, our approach leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Moshe Kimhi , Shai Kimhi , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Or Litany , Chaim Baskin

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors in intra-operative ultrasound (iUS) images could facilitate localization of tumor tissue during resection surgery. The lack of large annotated datasets limits the current models performances. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Mathilde Faanes , Ragnhild Holden Helland , Ole Solheim , Sébastien Muller , Ingerid Reinertsen

Manually segmenting the hepatic vessels from Computer Tomography (CT) is far more expertise-demanding and laborious than other structures due to the low-contrast and complex morphology of vessels, resulting in the extreme lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Zhe Xu , Donghuan Lu , Yixin Wang , Jie Luo , Jayender Jagadeesan , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Xiu Li

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

Semi-supervised learning leverages unlabeled data to enhance model performance, addressing the limitations of fully supervised approaches. Among its strategies, pseudo-supervision has proven highly effective, typically relying on one or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Negin Ghamsarian , Sahar Nasirihaghighi , Klaus Schoeffmann , Raphael Sznitman

Brain MR image segmentation is a key task in neuroimaging studies. It is commonly conducted using standard computational tools, such as FSL, SPM, multi-atlas segmentation etc, which are often registration-based and suffer from expensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Chengliang Dai , Yuanhan Mo , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

In this paper, we present a novel cross-consistency based semi-supervised approach for semantic segmentation. Consistency training has proven to be a powerful semi-supervised learning framework for leveraging unlabeled data under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Semi-supervised 3D medical image segmentation aims to achieve accurate segmentation using few labelled data and numerous unlabelled data. The main challenge in the design of semi-supervised learning methods consists in the effective use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yanyan Wang , Kechen Song , Yuyuan Liu , Shuai Ma , Yunhui Yan , Gustavo Carneiro

Partially-supervised learning can be challenging for segmentation due to the lack of supervision for unlabeled structures, and the methods directly applying fully-supervised learning could lead to incompatibility, meaning ground truth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

Semi-supervised learning has emerged as a widely adopted technique in the field of medical image segmentation. The existing works either focuses on the construction of consistency constraints or the generation of pseudo labels to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Ning Gao , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Nanning Zheng

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in medical image segmentation, offering competitive performance while substantially reducing the need for extensive manual annotation. When combined with active learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yi Yang

Medical instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound is essential for image-guided intervention. However, to train a successful deep neural network for instrument segmentation, a large number of labeled images are required, which is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hongxu Yang , Caifeng Shan , R. Arthur Bouwman , Lukas R. C. Dekker , Alexander F. Kolen , Peter H. N. de With

Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) is widely used in real-world scenarios. It can effectively alleviate the burden of annotation by matching entities in existing knowledge bases with snippets in the text but suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Shuzheng Si , Helan Hu , Haozhe Zhao , Shuang Zeng , Kaikai An , Zefan Cai , Baobao Chang

Purpose: In this paper, we investigate a framework for interactive brain tumor segmentation which, at its core, treats the problem of interactive brain tumor segmentation as a machine learning problem. Methods: This method has an advantage…

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