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Medical image segmentation annotations exhibit variations among experts due to the ambiguous boundaries of segmented objects and backgrounds in medical images. Although using multiple annotations for each image in the fully-supervised has…

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In the past years, deep learning has seen an increase in usage in the domain of histopathological applications. However, while these approaches have shown great potential, in high-risk environments deep learning models need to be able to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Hendrik A. Mehrtens , Alexander Kurz , Tabea-Clara Bucher , Titus J. Brinker

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

Segmentation using deep learning has shown promising directions in medical imaging as it aids in the analysis and diagnosis of diseases. Nevertheless, a main drawback of deep models is that they require a large amount of pixel-level labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

Noisy labels can significantly affect the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). In medical image segmentation tasks, annotations are error-prone due to the high demand in annotation time and in the annotators' expertise. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiachen Yao , Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Mayank Goswami , Prateek Prasanna , Chao Chen

Due to the necessity for precise treatment planning, the use of panoramic X-rays to identify different dental diseases has tremendously increased. Although numerous ML models have been developed for the interpretation of panoramic X-rays,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci , Sezgin Er , Enis Simsar , Anjany Sekuboyina , Mustafa Gundogar , Bernd Stadlinger , Albert Mehl , Bjoern Menze

Two DL models were developed using radiograph-level annotations (yes or no disease) and fine-grained lesion-level annotations (lesion bounding boxes), respectively named CheXNet and CheXDet. The models' internal classification performance…

The success of current deep saliency detection methods heavily depends on the availability of large-scale supervision in the form of per-pixel labeling. Such supervision, while labor-intensive and not always possible, tends to hinder the…

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One of the fundamental challenges in supervised learning for multimodal image registration is the lack of ground-truth for voxel-level spatial correspondence. This work describes a method to infer voxel-level transformation from…

Semi-supervised segmentation tackles the scarcity of annotations by leveraging unlabeled data with a small amount of labeled data. A prominent way to utilize the unlabeled data is by consistency training which commonly uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

Universal lesion detection has great value for clinical practice as it aims to detect various types of lesions in multiple organs on medical images. Deep learning methods have shown promising results, but demanding large volumes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Xiaoyu Bai , Benteng Ma , Changyang Li , Yong Xia

Multi-rater medical image segmentation captures the inherent ambiguity of clinical interpretation, where diagnostic boundaries vary across experts and imaging devices. Existing approaches often reduce this diversity to consensus labels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Armin Khosravi , Alireza Kheyrkhah , Reza Azad , Mauricio Reyes , Dorit Merhof

The task of parsing subcutaneous vessels in clinical images is often hindered by the high cost and limited availability of ground truth data, as well as the challenge of low contrast and noisy vessel appearances across different patients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ayaan Nooruddin Siddiqui , Mahnoor Zaidi , Ayesha Nazneen Shahbaz , Priyadarshini Chatterjee , Krishnan Menon Iyer

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

Segmentation uncertainty models predict a distribution over plausible segmentations for a given input, which they learn from the annotator variation in the training set. However, in practice these annotations can differ systematically in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Kilian Zepf , Eike Petersen , Jes Frellsen , Aasa Feragen

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Despite considerable progress in developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for prostate cancer detection from whole slide images, the clinical applicability of these models remains limited due to variability in pathological…

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