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Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

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Discriminative learning, restorative learning, and adversarial learning have proven beneficial for self-supervised learning schemes in computer vision and medical imaging. Existing efforts, however, omit their synergistic effects on each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Fatemeh Haghighi , Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have shown their promising performance in the cross-modality medical image segmentation tasks. These typical methods usually utilize a translation network to transform images from the source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiaoting Han , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Ziqi Zhou , Yefeng Zheng , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Weakly supervised segmentation methods can delineate thyroid nodules in ultrasound images efficiently using training data with coarse labels, but suffer from: 1) low-confidence pseudo-labels that follow topological priors, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jianning Chi , Zelan Li , Geng Lin , MingYang Sun , Xiaosheng Yu

The success of state-of-the-art deep neural networks heavily relies on the presence of large-scale labelled datasets, which are extremely expensive and time-consuming to annotate. This paper focuses on tackling semi-supervised part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yu Yang , Xiaotian Cheng , Hakan Bilen , Xiangyang Ji

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

Semantic segmentation is an important task for intelligent vehicles to understand the environment. Current deep learning methods require large amounts of labeled data for training. Manual annotation is expensive, while simulators can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Weihao Yan , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising solution to alleviate the annotation burden of deep learning-based medical image segmentation models. While recent advances in foundation model-driven SSL have pushed the boundary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Bichun Xu , Judong Luo , Zhigang Wu , Yu Fu , Zixin Hu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Medical image segmentation faces critical challenges in semi-supervised learning scenarios due to severe annotation scarcity requiring expert radiological knowledge, significant inter-annotator variability across different viewpoints and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Zihan Li , Dandan Shan , Yunxiang Li , Paul E. Kinahan , Qingqi Hong

Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medical image segmentation, heterogeneous label quality across clients can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Zahra Hafezi Kafshgari , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

Background and objective: Medical image segmentation is a core task in various clinical applications. However, acquiring large-scale, fully annotated medical image datasets is both time-consuming and costly. Scribble annotations, as a form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Peilin Zhang , Shaouxan Wua , Jun Feng , Zhuo Jin , Zhizezhang Gao , Jingkun Chen , Yaqiong Xing , Xiao Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in many image-guided clinical approaches. However, existing segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of fully annotated images with pixel-wise annotations for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyan Shi , Jialu Ma , Jin Yang , Shasha Wang , Yichi Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art for semantic image segmentation, but typically require many labeled training samples. Obtaining 3D segmentations of medical images for supervised training is difficult and labor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Zhenlin Xu , Marc Niethammer

Despite the success of deep learning on supervised point cloud semantic segmentation, obtaining large-scale point-by-point manual annotations is still a significant challenge. To reduce the huge annotation burden, we propose a Region-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tsung-Han Wu , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Yu-Kai Huang , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Ting Su , Ping-Chia Huang , Winston H. Hsu

Although fully-supervised oriented object detection has made significant progress in multimodal remote sensing image understanding, it comes at the cost of labor-intensive annotation. Recent studies have explored weakly and semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yu Lin , Jianghang Lin , Kai Ye , You Shen , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is essential for medical image segmentation, especially in cross-modality data scenarios. UDA aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, thereby reducing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Hui Lin , Florian Schiffers , Santiago López-Tapia , Neda Tavakoli , Daniel Kim , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Many deep learning based automated medical image segmentation systems, in reality, face difficulties in deployment due to the cost of massive data annotation and high latency in model iteration. We propose a dynamic interactive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mu Tian , Xiaohui Chen , Yi Gao

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, the investigation of label-efficient methodology for medical image segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on the efficient utilization of weak annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Junwen Pan , Qi Bi , Yanzhan Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Cheng Bian

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang