Deep Co-Training for Semi-Supervised Image Segmentation
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Abstract (arXiv)
In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of semantic image segmentation in a semi-supervised setting in which training is effectuated with a reduced set of annotated images and additional non-annotated images. We present a method based on an ensemble of deep segmentation models. Each model is trained on a subset of the annotated data, and uses the non-annotated images to exchange information with the other models, similar to co-training. Even if each model learns on the same non-annotated images, diversity is preserved with the use of adversarial samples. Our results show that this ability to simultaneously train models, which exchange knowledge while preserving diversity, leads to state-of-the-art results on two challenging medical image datasets.
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- 2022Learning with Limited Annotations: A Survey on Deep Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 74
- 2021Inconsistency-aware Uncertainty Estimation for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 61
- 2021Data-Uncertainty Guided Multi-Phase Learning for Semi-Supervised Object Detectioncited by 48
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- 2021Combating Noise: Semi-supervised Learning by Region Uncertainty Quantificationcited by 18
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- 2021Duo-SegNet: Adversarial Dual-Views for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 14
- 2022Addressing Class Imbalance in Semi-supervised Image Segmentation: A Study on Cardiac MRIcited by 14
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- 2023Space Engage: Collaborative Space Supervision for Contrastive-based Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentationcited by 8
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- 2021Segmentation with mixed supervision: Confidence maximization helps knowledge distillationcited by 6
- 2023Data efficient deep learning for medical image analysis: A surveycited by 6
- 2025MetaSSL: A General Heterogeneous Loss for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 6
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- 2025Uncertainty-aware Cross-training for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 5
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- 2023Multi-Scale Cross Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 4
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- 2024PRCL: Probabilistic Representation Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentationcited by 3
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- 2023Self-training with dual uncertainty for semi-supervised medical image segmentationcited by 1
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- 2023Collaborative Learning for Annotation-Efficient Volumetric MR Image Segmentationcited by 1
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- 2022L-MAE: Masked Autoencoders are Semantic Segmentation Datasets Augmentercited by 0
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- 2026SomaNet: Weakly Supervised Learning for Instance Soma Segmentation in 3D Electron Microscopy with Partial Annotations19 Sep 2026
- 2026SplitFed-CL: A Split Federated Co-Learning Framework for Medical Image Segmentation with Inaccurate Labels11 May 2026
- 2025Semi-Supervised 3D Segmentation for Type-B Aortic Dissection with Slim UNETR19 Dec 2025
- 2025Cross-pyramid consistency regularization for semi-supervised medical image segmentation11 Nov 2025
- 2025MetaSSL: A General Heterogeneous Loss for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation1 Sep 2025
- 2025Uncertainty-aware Cross-training for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation12 Aug 2025
- 2025Rethinking Semi-supervised Segmentation Beyond Accuracy: Reliability and Robustness6 Jun 2025
- 2025Enhancing Classification with Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Using Distance-Based Sample Weights20 May 2025
- 2025Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Multi-Constraint Consistency Learning23 Mar 2025
- 2025Diff-CL: A Novel Cross Pseudo-Supervision Method for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation12 Mar 2025
- 2024Learning Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation from Spatial Registration16 Sep 2024
- 2024Generative AI Enables Medical Image Segmentation in Ultra Low-Data Regimes30 Aug 2024
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- 2024DiffSeg: A Segmentation Model for Skin Lesions Based on Diffusion Difference25 Apr 2024
- 2024EPL: Evidential Prototype Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation9 Apr 2024
- 2024SM2C: Boost the Semi-supervised Segmentation for Medical Image by using Meta Pseudo Labels and Mixed Images24 Mar 2024
- 2024Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Based on Pseudo-Labels: A Survey4 Mar 2024
- 2024PRCL: Probabilistic Representation Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation28 Feb 2024
- 2023Collaborative Learning for Annotation-Efficient Volumetric MR Image Segmentation18 Dec 2023
- 2023Shifting to Machine Supervision: Annotation-Efficient Semi and Self-Supervised Learning for Automatic Medical Image Segmentation and Classification17 Nov 2023
- 2023Semi-Supervised Panoptic Narrative Grounding27 Oct 2023
- 2023Anatomically-aware Uncertainty for Semi-supervised Image Segmentation24 Oct 2023
- 2023Data efficient deep learning for medical image analysis: A survey10 Oct 2023
- 2023Semi-supervised Learning for Segmentation of Bleeding Regions in Video Capsule Endoscopy5 Aug 2023
- 2023Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Co-Distribution Alignment24 Jul 2023
- 2023Space Engage: Collaborative Space Supervision for Contrastive-based Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation19 Jul 2023
- 2023Multi-Scale Cross Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation25 Jun 2023
- 2023Collaborative Group: Composed Image Retrieval via Consensus Learning from Noisy Annotations3 Jun 2023
- 2023Self-training with dual uncertainty for semi-supervised medical image segmentation10 Apr 2023
- 2023Inherent Consistent Learning for Accurate Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation24 Mar 2023
- 2023A Survey on Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation20 Feb 2023
- 2022L-MAE: Masked Autoencoders are Semantic Segmentation Datasets Augmenter21 Nov 2022
- 2022Semi-Supervised and Self-Supervised Collaborative Learning for Prostate 3D MR Image Segmentation16 Nov 2022
- 2022Boosting Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Probabilistic Representations26 Oct 2022
- 2022Cut-Paste Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Lesion Segmentation1 Oct 2022
- 2022Understanding the Tricks of Deep Learning in Medical Image Segmentation: Challenges and Future Directions21 Sep 2022
- 2022Addressing Class Imbalance in Semi-supervised Image Segmentation: A Study on Cardiac MRI31 Aug 2022
- 2022Learning with Limited Annotations: A Survey on Deep Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation28 Jul 2022
- 2022PCA: Semi-supervised Segmentation with Patch Confidence Adversarial Training24 Jul 2022
- 2022Cycle Self-Training for Semi-Supervised Object Detection with Distribution Consistency Reweighting12 Jul 2022
- 2022UCC: Uncertainty guided Cross-head Co-training for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation20 May 2022
- 2022Application of belief functions to medical image segmentation: A review3 May 2022
- 2022ConsInstancy: Learning Instance Representations for Semi-Supervised Panoptic Segmentation of Concrete Aggregate Particles10 Apr 2022
- 2022SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic Segmentation15 Mar 2022
- 2022Leveraging Labeling Representations in Uncertainty-based Semi-supervised Segmentation10 Mar 2022
- 2022On the pitfalls of entropy-based uncertainty for multi-class semi-supervised segmentation7 Mar 2022
- 2021Uncertainty-Aware Deep Co-training for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation23 Nov 2021
- 2021Diversified Multi-prototype Representation for Semi-supervised Segmentation16 Nov 2021
- 2021Combating Noise: Semi-supervised Learning by Region Uncertainty Quantification1 Nov 2021
- 2021Inconsistency-aware Uncertainty Estimation for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation17 Oct 2021
- 2021Segmentation with mixed supervision: Confidence maximization helps knowledge distillation21 Sep 2021
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- 2022Learning with Limited Annotations: A Survey on Deep Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 74
- 2021Inconsistency-aware Uncertainty Estimation for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 61
- 2021Data-Uncertainty Guided Multi-Phase Learning for Semi-Supervised Object Detectioncited by 48
- 2022UCC: Uncertainty guided Cross-head Co-training for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentationcited by 45
- 2021Self-Paced Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Meta-labelscited by 32
- 2022SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic Segmentationcited by 24
- 2021Medical Image Segmentation with Limited Supervision: A Review of Deep Network Modelscited by 21
- 2021Combating Noise: Semi-supervised Learning by Region Uncertainty Quantificationcited by 18
- 2023A Survey on Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentationcited by 16
- 2021Boosting Semi-supervised Image Segmentation with Global and Local Mutual Information Regularizationcited by 14
- 2021Duo-SegNet: Adversarial Dual-Views for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentationcited by 14
- 2022Addressing Class Imbalance in Semi-supervised Image Segmentation: A Study on Cardiac MRIcited by 14
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- 2026SomaNet: Weakly Supervised Learning for Instance Soma Segmentation in 3D Electron Microscopy with Partial Annotations19 Sep 2026
- 2026SplitFed-CL: A Split Federated Co-Learning Framework for Medical Image Segmentation with Inaccurate Labels11 May 2026
- 2025Semi-Supervised 3D Segmentation for Type-B Aortic Dissection with Slim UNETR19 Dec 2025
- 2025Cross-pyramid consistency regularization for semi-supervised medical image segmentation11 Nov 2025
- 2025MetaSSL: A General Heterogeneous Loss for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation1 Sep 2025
- 2025Uncertainty-aware Cross-training for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation12 Aug 2025
- 2025Rethinking Semi-supervised Segmentation Beyond Accuracy: Reliability and Robustness6 Jun 2025
- 2025Enhancing Classification with Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Using Distance-Based Sample Weights20 May 2025
- 2025Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Multi-Constraint Consistency Learning23 Mar 2025
- 2025Diff-CL: A Novel Cross Pseudo-Supervision Method for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation12 Mar 2025
- 2024Learning Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation from Spatial Registration16 Sep 2024
- 2024Generative AI Enables Medical Image Segmentation in Ultra Low-Data Regimes30 Aug 2024
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