English
Related papers

Related papers: MedVeriSeg: Teaching MLLM-Based Medical Segmentati…

200 papers

Weakly-supervised medical image segmentation is a challenging task that aims to reduce the annotation cost while keep the segmentation performance. In this paper, we present a novel framework, SimTxtSeg, that leverages simple text cues to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuxin Xie , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Geng Chen

Although supervised deep-learning has achieved promising performance in medical image segmentation, many methods cannot generalize well on unseen data, limiting their real-world applicability. To address this problem, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Shangqi Gao , Hangqi Zhou , Yibo Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Deep learning models have become the dominant method for medical image segmentation. However, they often struggle to be generalisable to unknown tasks involving new anatomical structures, labels, or shapes. In these cases, the model needs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Jing Xu

Synthetic data, an appealing alternative to extensive expert-annotated data for medical image segmentation, consistently fails to improve segmentation performance despite its visual realism. The reason being that synthetic and real medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya , Kevin Desai

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Traditional supervised 3D medical image segmentation models need voxel-level annotations, which require huge human effort, time, and cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this limitation of supervised learning by facilitating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Suruchi Kumari , Aryan Das , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Indu Joshi , Pravendra Singh

Learning to segmentation without large-scale samples is an inherent capability of human. Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) performs the significant zero-shot image segmentation, attracting considerable attention from the computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chuanfei Hu , Tianyi Xia , Shenghong Ju , Xinde Li

Purpose: Deep learning methods have shown promising results in the segmentation, and detection of diseases in medical images. However, most methods are trained and tested on data from a single source, modality, organ, or disease type,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Nchongmaje Ndipenocha , Alina Mirona , Kezhi Wanga , Yongmin Li

Medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable success through the continuous advancement of UNet-based and Transformer-based foundation backbones. However, clinical diagnosis in the real world often requires integrating domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Siyuan Dai , Kai Ye , Guodong Liu , Haoteng Tang , Liang Zhan

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

Surgical planning integrates visual perception, long-horizon reasoning, and procedural knowledge, yet it remains unclear whether current evaluation protocols reliably assess vision-language models (VLMs) in safety-critical settings.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ruochen Li , Kun Yuan , Yufei Xia , Yue Zhou , Qingyu Lu , Weihang Li , Youxiang Zhu , Nassir Navab

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Despite remarkable advancements in pixel-level medical image perception, existing methods are either limited to specific tasks or heavily rely on accurate bounding boxes or text labels as input prompts. However, the medical knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Qinyue Tong , Ziqian Lu , Jun Liu , Yangming Zheng , Zheming Lu

Whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI scans is crucial for cardiovascular disease analysis, yet existing methods struggle with modality-specific biases and the need for extensive labeled datasets. To address these challenges, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Abdul Qayyum , Moona Mazher , Devran Ugurlu , Jose Alonso Solis Lemus , Cristobal Rodero , Steven A Niederer

Medical image segmentation has significantly benefitted thanks to deep learning architectures. Furthermore, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has recently been a growing trend for improving a model's overall performance by leveraging abundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

Modern segmentation models achieve strong predictive performance but remain largely opaque, limiting our ability to diagnose failures, understand dataset shift, or intervene in a principled manner. We introduce Med-SegLens, a model-diffing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Accurate segmentation of regions of interest in biomedical images holds substantial value in image analysis. Although several foundation models for biomedical segmentation have currently achieved excellent performance on certain datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Manyu Li , Ruian He , Zixian Zhang , Chenxi Ma , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

We propose a novel AutoRegressive Generation-based paradigm for image Segmentation (ARGenSeg), achieving multimodal understanding and pixel-level perception within a unified framework. Prior works integrating image segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaolong Wang , Lixiang Ru , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

Large-scale medical segmentation datasets often combine manual and pseudo-labels of uneven quality, which can compromise training and evaluation. Low-quality labels may hamper performance and make the model training less robust. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yixiong Chen , Zongwei Zhou , Wenxuan Li , Alan Yuille

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