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Image representations are commonly learned from class labels, which are a simplistic approximation of human image understanding. In this paper we demonstrate that transferable representations of images can be learned without manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Richard Droste , Yifan Cai , Harshita Sharma , Pierre Chatelain , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

In this paper, we show that ImageNet-Pretrained standard deep CNN models can be used as strong baseline networks for audio classification. Even though there is a significant difference between audio Spectrogram and standard ImageNet image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Kamalesh Palanisamy , Dipika Singhania , Angela Yao

Foundation vision encoders such as CLIP and DINOv2, trained on web-scale data, exhibit strong transfer performance across tasks and datasets. However, medical imaging foundation models remain constrained by smaller datasets, limiting our…

Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging provides exceptional spatiotemporal resolution for neurovascular mapping, yet its practical application is significantly hampered by critical challenges. Foremost among these are data scarcity, arising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xuhang Chen , Zhuo Li , Yanyan Shen , Mufti Mahmud , Hieu Pham , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Purpose: Ultrasound is the most commonly used medical imaging modality for diagnosis and screening in clinical practice. Due to its safety profile, noninvasive nature and portability, ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Sonit Singh , Gordon Stevenson , Brendan Mein , Alec Welsh , Arcot Sowmya

Foundational models have emerged as powerful tools for addressing various tasks in clinical settings. However, their potential development to breast ultrasound analysis remains untapped. In this paper, we present BUSGen, the first…

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a cost-effective, highly accessible and widely employed diagnostic tool. With the advent of Foundation Models (FMs), the field of AI-assisted ECG interpretation has begun to evolve, as they enable model reuse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Francesca Filice , Edoardo De Rose , Simone Bartucci , Francesco Calimeri , Simona Perri

3D medical image classification is essential for modern clinical workflows. Medical foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a promising approach for scaling to new tasks, yet current research suffers from three critical pitfalls:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Han Liu , Bogdan Georgescu , Yanbo Zhang , Youngjin Yoo , Michael Baumgartner , Riqiang Gao , Jianing Wang , Gengyan Zhao , Eli Gibson , Dorin Comaniciu , Sasa Grbic

Driven by the transition towards a climate-neutral energy system, accurate energy time series forecasting is critical for planning and operation. Yet, it remains largely a dataset-specific task, requiring comprehensive training data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Marco Obermeier , Marco Pruckner , Florian Haselbeck , Andreas Zeiselmair

Promptable Foundation Models (FMs), initially introduced for natural image segmentation, have also revolutionized medical image segmentation. The increasing number of models, along with evaluations varying in datasets, metrics, and compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Caroline Magg , Maaike A. ter Wee , Johannes G. G. Dobbe , Geert J. Streekstra , Leendert Blankevoort , Clara I. Sánchez , Hoel Kervadec

Medical imaging has significantly revolutionized medical diagnostics and treatment planning, progressing from early X-ray usage to sophisticated methods like MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds. This paper investigates the use of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Abdennour Boulesnane , Boutheina Mokhtari , Oumnia Rana Segueni , Slimane Segueni

Objectives Accurate MRI-based identification of extramural vascular invasion (EVI) and mesorectal fascia invasion (MFI) is crucial for risk-stratified rectal cancer treatment. However, subjective visual assessment and inter-institutional…

Data scarcity is a major limiting factor for applying modern machine learning techniques to clinical tasks. Although sufficient data exists for some well-studied medical tasks, there remains a long tail of clinically relevant tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Stefano Woerner , Christian F. Baumgartner

Precise anomaly detection in medical images is critical for clinical decision-making. While recent unsupervised or semi-supervised anomaly detection methods trained on large-scale normal data show promising results, they lack fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yue Zhou , Yuan Bi , Wenjuan Tong , Wei Wang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

When developing deep neural networks for segmenting intraoperative ultrasound images, several practical issues are encountered frequently, such as the presence of ultrasound frames that do not contain regions of interest and the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liam F Chalcroft , Jiongqi Qu , Sophie A Martin , Iani JMB Gayo , Giulio V Minore , Imraj RD Singh , Shaheer U Saeed , Qianye Yang , Zachary MC Baum , Andre Altmann , Yipeng Hu

This paper introduces WavesFM, a novel Wireless Foundation Model (WFM) framework, capable of supporting a wide array of communication, sensing, and localization tasks. Our proposed architecture combines a shared Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Ahmed Aboulfotouh , Elsayed Mohammed , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Fetal ultrasounds are an essential part of prenatal care and can be used to estimate gestational age (GA). Accurate GA assessment is important for providing appropriate prenatal care throughout pregnancy and identifying complications such…

Focal plane wavefront sensing (FPWFS) is appealing for several reasons. Notably, it offers high sensitivity and does not suffer from non-common path aberrations (NCPA). The price to pay is a high computational burden and the need for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 G. Orban de Xivry , M. Quesnel , P. -O. Vanberg , O. Absil , G. Louppe

Transformer-based foundation models (FMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, scaling these models is challenging due to the limited size of medical image datasets within isolated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yumin Zhang , Yan Gao , Haoran Duan , Hanqing Guo , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan , Bo Wei

Foundation models have emerged as robust models with label efficiency in diverse domains. In medical imaging, these models contribute to the advancement of medical diagnoses due to the difficulty in obtaining labeled data. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dilermando Queiroz , Anderson Carlos , Maíra Fatoretto , Luis Filipe Nakayama , André Anjos , Lilian Berton