arXiv:2506. 11142v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) faces persistent challenges in effectively leveraging unlabeled data, such as ineffective utilization of pseudo-labels, exacerbation of class imbalance biases, and neglect of prediction uncertainty.
By Ebenezer Tarubinga, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee
The paper introduces a cross‑modal pseudo‑labeling pipeline for unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation, particularly for waste sorting. It combines SAM for class‑agnostic region proposals with EVA‑CLIP to assign semantic labels via region‑text similarity, applying confidence filtering to ensure reliable pseudo‑labels for self‑training. An optional BLIP‑based language‑grounded verification further refines ambiguous regions, and the method shows consistent improvements over source‑only baselines on synthetic‑to‑real driving and lab‑to‑factory waste sorting shifts.
By Udo Schlegel, Shubhangi, Gabriel Dax, Sai Rahul Kaminwar, Florian Karl, Thomas Seidl
arXiv:2607. 16705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective solution for medical image segmentation with limited annotations.
By Shao-feng Jiang, Zhe-yang Jing, Qin Lu, Huan-huan Shi, Zhen Chen, Cong-xuan zhang, Chen Yi
The paper presents the first systematic evaluation of uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods applied to a foundation model for semantic segmentation. By fine‑tuning a lightweight DPT decoder on the pretrained SAM2 encoder, the authors benchmark four UQ approaches—Monte Carlo Dropout, Deep Sub‑Ensemble, Test‑Time Augmentation, and Evidential Deep Learning—across Cityscapes, NYUv2, and two out‑of‑domain settings, comparing segmentation accuracy, calibration, uncertainty quality, and inference time. The results reveal clear trade‑offs between predictive performance, reliability, and computational cost, underscoring both the promise and current limitations of uncertainty‑aware foundation models for real‑world deployment.
By Steven Landgraf, Joceline Hinz, Markus Ulrich
Recent advances in semi-supervised medical image segmentation have achieved remarkable performance through prediction consistency, pseudo-label supervision, and hard-region supervision. However, these methods primarily improve supervision quality rather than explicitly enforcing semantic consistency in the learned representations of hard regions.
arXiv:2609.37283v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly expected not only to answer clinical questions, but also to localize the visual evide...
By Xuyang Cao, Enyou Liu, Jun Zhao, Zhuoyun Liu, Jintao Fei, Leo
Pixel-level annotation remains a major bottleneck in medical image segmentation, making weak supervision an attractive yet under-constrained alternative. We propose OBBSeg, an intermediate supervision paradigm guided by Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs) that bridges the gap between full and weak supervision.
The paper introduces SSS, a semi‑supervised framework that builds on the Vision Foundation Model SAM‑2 to improve medical image segmentation. It combines a weak‑to‑strong consistency regularization with a Discriminative Feature Enhancement mechanism and a prompt generator that uses Physical Constraints with a Sliding Window to supply prompts for unlabeled data. Experiments on the ACDC and BHSD datasets show that SSS outperforms prior methods, achieving a 53.15 Dice score on BHSD, a +3.65 improvement over the state of the art.
By Hongjie Zhu, Xiwei Liu, Rundong Xue, Zeyu Zhang, Yong Xu, Daji Ergu, Ying Cai, Yang Zhao
arXiv:2606. 17958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has emerged as a dominant research problem in medical image analysis, mitigating annotation scarcity by leveraging consistency regularization on unlabeled data.
By Yuming Chen, Yuxin Xie, Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou
arXiv:2504.18190v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) can improve a perception model's generalization to an unlabeled target domain starting from a labeled source d...
By Brun\'o B. Englert, Tommie Kerssies, Gijs Dubbelman
The paper presents the first systematic evaluation of uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods applied to a foundation model for semantic segmentation. By fine‑tuning a lightweight DPT decoder on the pretrained SAM2 encoder, the authors benchmark four UQ approaches—Monte Carlo Dropout, Deep Sub‑Ensemble, Test‑Time Augmentation, and Evidential Deep Learning—across Cityscapes, NYUv2, and two out‑of‑domain settings. The study compares segmentation accuracy, calibration, uncertainty quality, and inference time, revealing trade‑offs between predictive performance, reliability, and computational cost.
arXiv:2511. 12110v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite notable progress in text-guided medical image segmentation nowadays, these methods are limited to single-round dialogues and fail to support multi-round reasoning, which is important for medical education scenarios.
By Qinyue Tong, Ziqian Lu, Jun Liu, Rui Zuo, Zheming Lu, Yueming Jin