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Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance,…

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Solving medical imaging data scarcity through semantic image generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, existing generative models mainly focus on synthesizing whole-organ or large-tissue structures, showing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Jiahao Xia , Yutao Hu , Yaolei Qi , Zhenliang Li , Wenqi Shao , Junjun He , Ying Fu , Longjiang Zhang , Guanyu Yang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to learn a model trained on source domain and performs well on unlabeled target domain. In medical image segmentation field, most existing UDA methods depend on adversarial learning to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shaolei Liu , Siqi Yin , Linhao Qu , Manning Wang

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis is gradually deployed to review and analyze medical images. However, this paradigm is restricted in real-world clinical applications due to the poor robustness and generalization. The issue is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yurong Chen

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Toan Nguyen Hai , Ba Luong Son , Long Tran Quoc

The scarcity of labeled data often limits the application of supervised deep learning techniques for medical image segmentation. This has motivated the development of semi-supervised techniques that learn from a mixture of labeled and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Gerda Bortsova , Florian Dubost , Laurens Hogeweg , Ioannis Katramados , Marleen de Bruijne

Tooth image segmentation is a cornerstone of dental digitization. However, traditional image encoders relying on fixed-resolution feature maps often lead to discontinuous segmentation and poor discrimination between target regions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xinxin Zhao , Jian Jiang , Yan Tian , Liqin Wu , Zhaocheng Xu , Teddy Yang , Yunuo Zou , Xun Wang

Medical image segmentation typically adopts a point-wise convolutional segmentation head to predict dense labels, where each output channel is heuristically tied to a specific class. This rigid design limits both feature sharing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bin Xie , Gady Agam

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical decision making, treatment planning, and disease tracking. However, it still faces two major challenges. On the one hand, there is often a ``soft boundary'' between foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Mengqi Lei , Haochen Wu , Xinhua Lv , Xin Wang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods heavily rely on fully supervised training, which requires a large amount of labeled data with time-consuming pixel-wise annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunqi Gu , Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Kelei He , Chen Gong , Huazhu Fu

Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, which necessitates understanding both coarse morphological and semantic structures, as well as carving fine boundaries. The morphological and semantic structures in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siyuan Song , Guyue Hu , Chenglong Li , Dengdi Sun , Zhe Jin , Jin Tang

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

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

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Medical ultrasound imaging is ubiquitous, but manual analysis struggles to keep pace. Automated segmentation can help but requires large labeled datasets, which are scarce. Semi-supervised learning leveraging both unlabeled and limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yaxiong Chen , Yujie Wang , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Semantic medical image segmentation using deep learning has recently achieved high accuracy, making it appealing to clinical problems such as radiation therapy. However, the lack of high-quality semantically labelled data remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Wei Dai , Siyu Liu , Craig B. Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

We present a mask-piloted Transformer which improves masked-attention in Mask2Former for image segmentation. The improvement is based on our observation that Mask2Former suffers from inconsistent mask predictions between consecutive decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Huaizhe Xu , Shijia Huang , Shilong Liu , Lionel M. Ni , Lei Zhang

Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Jianping Fan , Ye Li

Medical vision-language models enable co-learning and integrating features from medical imaging and clinical text. However, these models are not easy to train and the latent representation space can be complex. Here we propose a novel way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Che Liu , Sibo Cheng , Chen Chen , Mengyun Qiao , Weitong Zhang , Anand Shah , Wenjia Bai , Rossella Arcucci

The research community has witnessed the powerful potential of self-supervised Masked Image Modeling (MIM), which enables the models capable of learning visual representation from unlabeled data. In this paper, to incorporate both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Wenxuan Wang , Jing Wang , Chen Chen , Jianbo Jiao , Yuanxiu Cai , Shanshan Song , Jiangyun Li