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The universality of deep neural networks across different modalities and their generalization capabilities to unseen domains play an essential role in medical image segmentation. The recent segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Qing Xu , Jiaxuan Li , Xiangjian He , Chenxin Li , Fiseha B. Tesem , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen , Rong Qu , Jonathan M. Garibaldi , Chang Wen Chen

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has set a new standard in interactive image segmentation, offering robust performance across various tasks. However, its significant computational requirements limit its deployment in real-time or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Kunal Dasharath Patil , Gowthamaan Palani , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Recent advancements in large foundation models have shown promising potential in the medical industry due to their flexible prompting capability. One such model, the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven segmentation model, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Qi Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Marawan Elbatel

Medical image segmentation is challenging due to overlapping anatomies with ambiguous boundaries and a severe imbalance between the foreground and background classes, which particularly affects the delineation of small lesions. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hao Shao , Qibin Hou

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) combines a clever architecture and large quantities of training data to obtain remarkable image segmentation capabilities. However, it fails to reproduce such results for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Tal Shaharabany , Aviad Dahan , Raja Giryes , Lior Wolf

In medical imaging, precise annotation of lesions or organs is often required. However, 3D volumetric images typically consist of hundreds or thousands of slices, making the annotation process extremely time-consuming and laborious.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bingzhi Shen , Lufan Chang , Siqi Chen , Shuxiang Guo , Hao Liu

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation models often suffer from domain shift, where the models trained on a source domain do not generalize well to other unseen domains. As a prompt-driven foundation model with powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Yifan Gao , Wei Xia , Dingdu Hu , Wenkui Wang , Xin Gao

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention because of its ability to segment various objects in images given a prompt. The recently developed SAM 2 has extended this ability to video inputs. This opens an opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Yaqian Chen , Jichen Yang , Yuwen Chen , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Promptable segmentation foundation models have emerged as a transformative approach to addressing the diverse needs in medical images, but most existing models require expensive computing, posing a big barrier to their adoption in clinical…

Deep learning has been widely accepted as a promising solution for medical image segmentation, given a sufficiently large representative dataset of images with corresponding annotations. With ever increasing amounts of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) signifies a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen , Rushi Jiao

With the development of multimodality and large language models, the deep learning-based technique for medical image captioning holds the potential to offer valuable diagnostic recommendations. However, current generic text and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhenyu Zhang , Benlu Wang , Weijie Liang , Yizhi Li , Xuechen Guo , Guanhong Wang , Shiyan Li , Gaoang Wang

Medical image segmentation is evolving from task-specific models toward generalizable frameworks. Recent research leverages Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) as autonomous agents, employing reinforcement learning with verifiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shengyuan Liu , Liuxin Bao , Qi Yang , Wanting Geng , Boyun Zheng , Chenxin Li , Wenting Chen , Houwen Peng , Yixuan Yuan

Vision foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM), pretrained on large-scale natural image datasets, often struggle in medical image segmentation due to a lack of domain-specific adaptation. In clinical practice, fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zelin Liu , Sicheng Dong , Bocheng Li , Yixuan Yang , Jiacheng Ruan , Chenxu Zhou , Suncheng Xiang

The recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image segmentation, especially for small, irregularly-shaped, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yaxi Chen , Aleksandra Ivanova , Shaheer U. Saeed , Rikin Hargunani , Jie Huang , Chaozong Liu , Yipeng Hu

Universal medical image segmentation models have emerged as a promising paradigm due to their strong generalizability across diverse tasks, showing great potential for a wide range of clinical applications. This potential has been partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yanwu Yang , Guinan Su , Jiesi Hu , Francesco Sammarco , Jonas Geiping , Thomas Wolfers