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Obtaining pixel-level annotations in the medical domain is both expensive and time-consuming, often requiring close collaboration between clinical experts and developers. Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Cheng Wang , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Uncertainty estimation has been widely studied in medical image segmentation as a tool to provide reliability, particularly in deep learning approaches. However, previous methods generally lack effective supervision in uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuzhu Li , An Sui , Fuping Wu , Xiahai Zhuang

In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the poor quality of unlabeled data and the uncertainty in the model's predictions lead to models that inevitably produce erroneous pseudo-labels. These errors accumulate throughout model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiwei Zhou , Xin Liu , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo , Dengdi Sun

Uncertainty estimation methods are expected to improve the understanding and quality of computer-assisted methods used in medical applications (e.g., neurosurgical interventions, radiotherapy planning), where automated medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Alain Jungo , Raphael Meier , Ekin Ermis , Marcela Blatti-Moreno , Evelyn Herrmann , Roland Wiest , Mauricio Reyes

Medical multimodal learning faces significant challenges with missing modalities prevalent in clinical practice. Existing approaches assume equal contribution of modality and random missing patterns, neglecting inherent uncertainty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Linxiao Gong , Yang Liu , Lianlong Sun , Yulai Bi , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Zhu

Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li

Liver cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to inconspicuous texture changes of liver tumor, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging is effective for the diagnosis of liver cancer. In this paper, we focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Yao Zhang , Jiawei Yang , Jiang Tian , Zhongchao Shi , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Automated medical image segmentation inherently involves a certain degree of uncertainty. One key factor contributing to this uncertainty is the ambiguity that can arise in determining the boundaries of a target region of interest,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Qingqiao Hu , Hao Wang , Jing Luo , Yunhao Luo , Zhiheng Zhangg , Jan S. Kirschke , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze , Jianguo Zhang , Hongwei Bran Li

The performance of learning-based algorithms improves with the amount of labelled data used for training. Yet, manually annotating data is particularly difficult for medical image segmentation tasks because of the limited expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Despite significant progress in pixel-level medical image analysis, existing medical image segmentation models rarely explore medical segmentation and diagnosis tasks jointly. However, it is crucial for patients that models can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lingran Song , Yucheng Zhou , Jianbing Shen

In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a…

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

Trustworthy medical image segmentation aims at deliver accurate and reliable results for clinical decision-making. Most existing methods adopt the evidence deep learning (EDL) paradigm due to its computational efficiency and theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Zhen Yang , Yansong Ma , Lei Chen

Collective intelligence from multiple medical experts consistently surpasses individual expertise in clinical diagnosis, particularly for ambiguous medical image segmentation tasks involving unclear tissue boundaries or pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mingzhou Jiang , Jiaying Zhou , Junde Wu , Tianyang Wang , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides essential complementary information for analyzing brain tumor subregions. While methods using four common MRI modalities for automatic segmentation have shown success, they often face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Runze Cheng , Zhongao Sun , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Multi-parametric magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is an indispensable tool in the clinic. Consequently, automatic volume-of-interest segmentation based on multi-parametric MR imaging is crucial for computer-aided disease diagnosis, treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Cheng Li , Yousuf Babiker M. Osman , Weijian Huang , Zhenzhen Xue , Hua Han , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Unsupervised domain adaptation for medical image segmentation remains a significant challenge due to substantial domain shifts across imaging modalities, such as CT and MRI. While recent vision-language representation learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

Semi-supervised learning offers an appealing solution for remote sensing (RS) image segmentation to relieve the burden of labor-intensive pixel-level labeling. However, RS images pose unique challenges, including rich multi-scale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shanwen Wang , Xin Sun , Changrui Chen , Danfeng Hong , Jungong Han

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) enables models trained on a labeled source domain to handle new unlabeled domains. Recently, pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising zero-shot performance by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xinyao Li , Jingjing Li , Zhekai Du , Lei Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

This paper presents a simple yet effective two-stage framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Unlike prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods that predominantly rely on pseudo supervision directly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huimin Wu , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng