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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

One key bottleneck of employing state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks in the real world is the availability of training labels. Conventional semantic segmentation networks require massive pixel-wise annotated labels to reach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

Accurate training labels are a key component for multi-class medical image segmentation. Their annotation is costly and time-consuming because it requires domain expertise. This work aims to develop a dual-branch network and automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jianfei Liu , Christopher Parnell , Ronald M. Summers

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

A significant issue in training deep neural networks to solve supervised learning tasks is the need for large numbers of labelled datapoints. The goal of semi-supervised learning is to leverage ubiquitous unlabelled data, together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Chengxu Zhuang , Xuehao Ding , Divyanshu Murli , Daniel Yamins

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but it is frequently disrupted by noisy annotations and ambiguous anatomical boundaries, limiting its application in real-world scenarios. Existing methods often directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenyu Mu , Guihai Chen , Xun Yang , Erkun Yang , Cheng Deng

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress when a large amount of labeled data are available. However, annotating medical image segmentation datasets is expensive due to the requirement of professional skills. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tao Wang , Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Yuanzheng Cai , Zuoyong Li

In this paper, we study the semi-supervised semantic segmentation problem via exploring both labeled data and extra unlabeled data. We propose a novel consistency regularization approach, called cross pseudo supervision (CPS). Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Xiaokang Chen , Yuhui Yuan , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zhe Xu , Yixin Wang , Donghuan Lu , Lequan Yu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Automatic polyp segmentation models play a pivotal role in the clinical diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases. In previous studies, most methods relied on fully supervised approaches, necessitating pixel-level annotations for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zixun Zhang , Yuncheng Jiang , Jun Wei , Hannah Cui , Zhen Li

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

In the fast-growing field of Remote Sensing (RS) image analysis, the gap between massive unlabeled datasets and the ability to fully utilize these datasets for advanced RS analytics presents a significant challenge. To fill the gap, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Song Zhang , Qingzhong Wang , Junyi Liu , Haoyi Xiong

Recently, significant progress has been made on semantic segmentation. However, the success of supervised semantic segmentation typically relies on a large amount of labelled data, which is time-consuming and costly to obtain. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Jianlong Yuan , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

This paper presents an automatic algorithm for the segmentation of areas affected by an acute stroke on the non-contrast computed tomography brain images. The proposed algorithm is designed for learning in a weakly supervised scenario when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Anna Dobshik , Andrey Tulupov , Vladimir Berikov

Recently, weakly-supervised image segmentation using weak annotations like scribbles has gained great attention in computer vision and medical image analysis, since such annotations are much easier to obtain compared to time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Qiuhui Chen , Haiying Lyu , Xinyue Hu , Yong Lu , Yi Hong

Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in medical image analysis, but it can be very challenging especially when there are less labeled data but with large unlabeled data. Contrastive learning has proven to be effective for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shihuan He , Zhihui Lai , Ruxin Wang , Heng Kong

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

The success of deep learning in medical imaging is mostly achieved at the cost of a large labeled data set. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising solution by leveraging the structure of unlabeled data to improve learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Zhiyuan Li , Sandesh Ghimire , Linwei Wang

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and autonomous driving and has a problem with the high cost of annotating the labels required in training. To address this problem, semantic segmentation methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Nagito Saito , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to learn from a small amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled ones for the segmentation task. The most common approach is to generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled images to augment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rui Chen , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao