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While fully supervised deep learning methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in this domain, their reliance on large-scale, pixel-level annotated datasets\u2014a significant label scarcity challenge\u2014severely hinders their widespread deployment in clinical settings. Addressing this limitation, this review focuses on non-fully supervised learning paradigms, systematically investigating the application of semi-supervised, weakly supervised, and unsupervised learning techniques for medical image segmentation. We delve into the theoretical foundations, core advantages, typical application scenarios, and representative algorithmic implementations associated with each paradigm. Furthermore, this paper compiles and critically reviews commonly utilized benchmark datasets within the field. 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