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Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) has shown excellent results in the detection of prostate cancer (PCa). However, characterizing prostate lesions aggressiveness in mp-MRI sequences is impossible in clinical practice, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Audrey Duran , Gaspard Dussert , Olivier Rouvière , Tristan Jaouen , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Carole Lartizien

Lesion segmentation in medical imaging serves as an effective tool for assessing tumor sizes and monitoring changes in growth. However, not only is manual lesion segmentation time-consuming, but it is also expensive and requires expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

Background: Breast cancer has the highest prevalence in women globally. The classification and diagnosis of breast cancer and its histopathological images have always been a hot spot of clinical concern. In Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yuchao Zheng , Chen Li , Xiaomin Zhou , Haoyuan Chen , Hao Xu , Yixin Li , Haiqing Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Hongzan Sun , Xinyu Huang , Marcin Grzegorzek

Weakly-supervised methods typically guided the pixel-wise training by comparing the predictions to single-level labels containing diverse segmentation-related information at once, but struggled to represent delicate feature differences…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Jianning Chi , Zelan Li , Huixuan Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Ying Huang

Automated prostate segmentation in MRI is highly demanded for computer-assisted diagnosis. Recently, a variety of deep learning methods have achieved remarkable progress in this task, usually relying on large amounts of training data. Due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Quande Liu , Qi Dou , Lequan Yu , Pheng Ann Heng

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) tasks in the medical domain often face the long-tail label distribution problem. Prior works have explored hierarchical label structures to find relevant information for few-shot classes, but mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xueren Ge , Satpathy Abhishek , Ronald Dean Williams , John A. Stankovic , Homa Alemzadeh

Adnexal mass evaluation via ultrasound is a challenging clinical task, often hindered by subjective interpretation and significant inter-observer variability. While automated segmentation is a foundational step for quantitative risk…

In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhou Zheng , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kensaku Mori

Labeled datasets reflect the biases of their annotation pipelines, which sometimes introduce label bias: group-conditional label errors that cause systematic performance disparities across demographic subgroups. Label bias in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Parikh , Stella Frank , Sneha Das , Aasa Feragen

Large-scale Multi-label Text Classification (LMTC) has a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications and presents interesting challenges. First, not all labels are well represented in the training set, due to the very large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ilias Chalkidis , Manos Fergadiotis , Sotiris Kotitsas , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Nikolaos Aletras , Ion Androutsopoulos

Skin lesions are an increasingly significant medical concern, varying widely in severity from benign to cancerous. Accurate diagnosis is essential for ensuring timely and appropriate treatment. This study examines the implementation of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Xiaoyi Liu , Zhou Yu , Lianghao Tan , Yafeng Yan , Ge Shi

Trained using only image class label, deep weakly supervised methods allow image classification and ROI segmentation for interpretability. Despite their success on natural images, they face several challenges over histology data where ROI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

High-quality pixel-level annotations of medical images are essential for supervised segmentation tasks, but obtaining such annotations is costly and requires medical expertise. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anghong Du , Nay Aung , Theodoros N. Arvanitis , Stefan K. Piechnik , Joao A C Lima , Steffen E. Petersen , Le Zhang

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Neuron segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) aims to reconstruct the complete neuronal connectome; however, current deep learning-based methods are limited by their reliance on large-scale training data and extensive, time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Liuyun Jiang , Yanchao Zhang , Jinyue Guo , Yizhuo Lu , Ruining Zhou , Hua Han

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

Training deep neural networks is challenging when large and annotated datasets are unavailable. Extensive manual annotation of data samples is time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone, notably when it needs to be done by experts. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Barbara C Benato , Alexandru C Telea , Alexandre X Falcão

In pathology, the spatial distribution and proportions of tissue types are key indicators of disease progression, and are more readily available than fine-grained annotations. However, these assessments are rarely mapped to pixel-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yangping Li , Thomas Pinetz , Michael Hölzel , Marieta Toma , Alexander Effland

Deep learning (DL) networks have recently been shown to outperform other segmentation methods on various public, medical-image challenge datasets [3,11,16], especially for large pathologies. However, in the context of diseases such as…

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