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Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment planning. While recent multimodal vision-language models have shown promise in enhancing semantic understanding through textual descriptions, their…

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Semantic segmentation is an important task for scene understanding in self-driving cars and robotics, which aims to assign dense labels for all pixels in the image. Existing work typically improves semantic segmentation performance by…

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In this paper, we focus on a long-term continual learning (CL) task, where a model learns sequentially from a stream of vast tasks over time, acquiring new knowledge while retaining previously learned information in a manner akin to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tianyu Huai , Jie Zhou , Yuxuan Cai , Qin Chen , Wen Wu , Xingjiao Wu , Xipeng Qiu , Liang He

The ability to dynamically extend a model to new data and classes is critical for multiple organ and tumor segmentation. However, due to privacy regulations, accessing previous data and annotations can be problematic in the medical domain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Yixiao Zhang , Xinyi Li , Huimiao Chen , Alan Yuille , Yaoyao Liu , Zongwei Zhou

In-context learning (ICL) offers a promising paradigm for universal medical image analysis, enabling models to perform diverse image processing tasks without retraining. However, current ICL models for medical imaging remain limited in two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jiesi Hu , Jianfeng Cao , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Yixuan Zhang , Hanyang Peng , Ting Ma

Brain lesion segmentation from multi-modal MRI often assumes fixed modality sets or predefined pathologies, making existing models difficult to adapt across cohorts and imaging protocols. Continual learning (CL) offers a natural solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yousef Sadegheih , Dorit Merhof , Pratibha Kumari

The ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting is a key skill of biological brains, whereas it represents a major challenge to the field of deep learning. To avoid catastrophic forgetting, various continual learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Francesco Lässig , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Martino Sorbaro , Benjamin F. Grewe

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Semi-supervised learning has become increasingly popular in medical image segmentation due to its ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to extract additional information. However, most existing semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Shengbo Gao , Ziji Zhang , Jiechao Ma , Zihao Li , Shu Zhang

Medical image analysis is critical yet challenged by the need of jointly segmenting organs or tissues, and numerous instances for anatomical structures and tumor microenvironment analysis. Existing studies typically formulated different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qing Xu , Yuxiang Luo , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Sparse learning has been shown to be effective in solving many real-world problems. Finding sparse representations is a fundamentally important topic in many fields of science including signal processing, computer vision, genome study and…

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Current medical image analysis systems are typically task-specific, requiring separate models for classification and segmentation, and lack the flexibility to support user-defined workflows. To address these challenges, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shadman Sobhan , Kazi Abrar Mahmud , Abduz Zami

Automatic segmentation of medical images is an important task for many clinical applications. In practice, a wide range of anatomical structures are visualised using different imaging modalities. In this paper, we investigate whether a…

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Endoscopy is a widely used technique for the early detection of diseases or robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Numerous deep learning (DL)-based research works have been developed for automated diagnosis or processing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Yanan Wu , Tong Chen , Hongliang Ren

Biomedical knowledge graphs are increasingly large, dynamic, and multimodal, driven by rapid advances in biotechnology such as high-throughput sequencing. Machine learning models can infer previously unobserved biomedical relationships and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yousef A. Radwan , Yao Li , Qing Qing , Ziqi Xu , Qixin Zhang , Yongcheng Jing , Renqiang Luo , Xikun Zhang

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) requires learning new classes without forgetting previously acquired knowledge, addressing the fundamental challenge of catastrophic forgetting in dense prediction tasks. However, existing CSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Wentao Zhang , Zishan Xu , Dexia Chen , Siyu Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Jax Luo , Songlin Zhao , Yajun Yu , Scott B. Raymond , Hao Peng , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi , Wei Liu , You Zhang

In Continual Learning (CL), a model is required to learn a stream of tasks sequentially without significant performance degradation on previously learned tasks. Current approaches fail for a long sequence of tasks from diverse domains and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Jiaye Zhu , Laurent Itti

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Multi-view echocardiographic sequences segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, this task is challenging due to limited labeled data, huge noise, and large gaps across views. Here we propose a recurrent aggregation learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Ming Li , Weiwei Zhang , Guang Yang , Chengjia Wang , Heye Zhang , Huafeng Liu , Wei Zheng , Shuo Li