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48 results for manual annotation

Paper develops a BERT-based classifier to reduce pathology report annotation workload.

problem Manual annotation of pathology reports is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
method Developed an automatic text classifier using BERT and introduced a human-centric metric to identify low-confidence cases.
result The model reduces manual annotation workload by 80% to 98%.

Paper proposes an efficient method for bounding box annotation in object detection.

problem Manual annotation of bounding boxes is tedious and resource-intensive.
method Iterative training of object detector on small batches of labeled images, with human annotator correcting errors.
result Significant reduction in human annotation effort, up to 75%.

Crowdsourcing and active learning reduce manual annotation in social media event classification.

problem Manual annotation is time-consuming and resource-intensive in social media event classification.
method Crowdsourcing pipeline combined with active learning strategies.
result Active learning strategies help reduce the number of tweets needed for classification.

A key barrier to making phonetic studies scalable and replicable is the need to rely on subjective, manual annotation. To help meet this challenge, a machine learning algorithm was developed for automatic measurement of a widely used phonetic measure: vowel duration. Manually-annotated data were used to train a model t…

2016-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated generation of medical reports from chest x-rays using expert annotations.

problem Generating long, unstructured text from medical images with context and consistency.
method First learn visually-informative medical concepts from raw reports, then use these concepts to auto-generate structured reports from images.
result Validation on OpenI dataset shows auto-generated reports are consistent with manual annotations.

Paper proposes training deep nets on noisy labels without manual annotation.

problem Training deep neural networks on noisy labels without manual annotation.
method Directly train deep neural network on noisy candidate labels, early stopping to avoid overfitting.
result Training on noisy candidate labels yields higher test performance than on clean data.

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only time-consuming but also requires medical expertise. On the other hand, images with…

2018-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes an approach for rapid bounding box annotation for object detection datasets. The procedure consists of two stages: The first step is to annotate a part of the dataset manually, and the second step proposes annotations for the remaining samples using a model trained with the first stage annotations. …

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

New DL algorithm detects critical chest X-ray findings without manual annotations.

problem Lack of explainability and manual annotation costs for DL models in medical imaging.
method Multi-instance learning approach to jointly classify and localize critical findings in CXR.
result Competitive classification results on three CXR datasets.

Paper proposes active learning for sound event detection with reduced annotation effort.

problem Reducing annotation effort for sound event detection.
method Change point detection for candidate selection, mismatch-first farthest-traversal for selection, training with context recordings.
result The proposed system achieves similar performance to full annotation with only 2% of data, reducing annotation effort.

To be effective, state of the art machine learning technology needs large amounts of annotated data. There are numerous compelling applications in healthcare that can benefit from high performance automated decision support systems provided by deep learning technology, but they lack the comprehensive data resources req…

2018-01-03abs ↗pdf ↗

OLALA automates document layout annotation by selecting ambiguous regions for labeling.

problem Efficiently annotating complex document layouts with limited resources.
method Object-Level Active Learning framework that selects ambiguous regions for labeling and uses semi-automatic correction.
result OLALA significantly boosts model performance and improves annotation efficiency.

Supervised Deep Learning has been highly successful in recent years, achieving state-of-the-art results in most tasks. However, with the ongoing uptake of such methods in industrial applications, the requirement for large amounts of annotated data is often a challenge. In most real world problems, manual annotation is …

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A2 Learning reduces redundant examples in AL for NLP tasks.

problem Redundant examples in AL strategies waste annotation effort.
method A2 Learning actively adapts to deep learning models to eliminate redundant examples.
result A2 Learning reduces data requirements by 3-25% on NLP tasks.

Generative AI reduces IR evaluation costs but introduces errors; this work provides reliable CIs.

problem Generating relevance annotations using AI introduces errors that affect IR evaluation metrics.
method Proposes two methods: prediction-powered inference and conformal risk control to place reliable CIs around IR metrics.
result Proposed methods accurately capture both variance and bias in evaluation based on AI-generated annotations.

A deep neural network detects sleep events in polysomnograms with high accuracy.

problem Manual scoring of sleep events in clinical analysis is inconsistent and time-consuming.
method A single deep neural network architecture trained on 1653 recordings for joint detection of arousals, leg movements, and sleep disordered breathing.
result Joint detection of sleep events yields higher accuracy compared to separate models, and correlates well with manual annotations.

Analysis of flow cytometry data is an essential tool for clinical diagnosis of hematological and immunological conditions. Current clinical workflows rely on a manual process called gating to classify cells into their canonical types. This dependence on human annotation limits the rate, reproducibility, and complexity …

2017-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The success of deep learning has been due, in no small part, to the availability of large annotated datasets. Thus, a major bottleneck in current learning pipelines is the time-consuming human annotation of data. In scenarios where such input-output pairs cannot be collected, simulation is often used instead, leading t…

2018-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved retinal vessel segmentation with topology preservation trade-off.

problem Retinal vessel segmentation accuracy and topology preservation trade-off.
method Topology preserving term in the loss function and orientation score guided convolutional module.
result Model achieves higher topological accuracy at the expense of lower overlap metrics.

Improves binary classification from positive data with skewed confidence.

problem Skewed confidence in positive data affects the performance of Pconf classifiers.
method Parameterized model of skewed confidence and hyperparameter selection.
result Proposed method effectively cancels out the negative impact of skewed confidence.

Framework ranks sectors influenced by Indian Union Budgets.

problem Real-time analysis of budgetary impacts on sector-specific equity performance.
method Fine-tuned embeddings and language models for sector identification and performance ranking.
result 0.997 NDCG score in predicting sector ranks based on post-budget performances.

Paper shows noisy labels can improve PLR variable selection.

problem Variable selection in PLR is challenging due to noisy labels.
method Proposes a novel ADMM-based algorithm to fuse noisy labels.
result Fused noisy labels improve PLR performance in estimation and classification.

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms lack generalization and suffer from over-fitting whenever trained on small dataset,…

2018-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The task of Natural Language Inference (NLI) is widely modeled as supervised sentence pair classification. While there has been a lot of work recently on generating explanations of the predictions of classifiers on a single piece of text, there have been no attempts to generate explanations of classifiers operating on …

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles brain tumor segmentation using weak labels and hierarchical training.

problem High manual labeling effort for fully supervised brain tumor segmentation.
method Uses scribbles and global labels for weak supervision, trains two networks in phases.
result Achieves competitive results on brain tumor segmentation and substructure segmentation.