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Segmentation is central to clinical diagnosis and monitoring, yet the reliability of modern foundation models in medical imaging still depends on the availability of precise prompts. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) offers powerful…

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized interactive segmentation through spatial prompting. While existing work primarily focuses on automating prompts in various settings, real-world annotation workflows involve iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Prithwijit Chowdhury , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Segment anything model (SAM) demonstrates strong generalization ability on natural image segmentation. However, its direct adaptation in medical image segmentation tasks shows significant performance drops. It also requires an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Heng Guo , Jianfeng Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Tony C. W. Mok , Dazhou Guo , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Dakai Jin , Minfeng Xu

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have been recently proposed for universal use in segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Jingwei Zhang , Ke Ma , Saarthak Kapse , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Prateek Prasanna , Dimitris Samaras

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Spine image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment of spine diseases. The complex structure of the spine and the high morphological similarity between individual vertebrae and adjacent intervertebral discs make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Dingwei Fan , Junyong Zhao , Chunlin Li , Mingliang Wang , Qi Zhu , Haipeng Si , Daoqiang Zhang , Liang Sun

Powered by massive curated training data, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated its impressive generalization capabilities in open-world scenarios with the guidance of prompts. However, the vanilla SAM is class agnostic and heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , Jie Ma , Jichang Li , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Medical image segmentation has been traditionally approached by training or fine-tuning the entire model to cater to any new modality or dataset. However, this approach often requires tuning a large number of parameters during training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However, its application in medical imaging presents challenges, requiring either substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhiheng Cheng , Qingyue Wei , Hongru Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangqiong Qu , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou

Single-point annotation in visual tasks, with the goal of minimizing labelling costs, is becoming increasingly prominent in research. Recently, visual foundation models, such as Segment Anything (SAM), have gained widespread usage due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhaoyang Wei , Pengfei Chen , Xuehui Yu , Guorong Li , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models using image data with only image-level supervision. Since precise pixel-level annotations are not accessible, existing methods typically focus on producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ci-Siang Lin , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byunghyun Kim

This paper provides insights on the effectiveness of the zero shot, prompt-based Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its updated versions, SAM 2 and SAM 2.1, along with the non-promptable conventional neural network (CNN), for segmenting solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Osher Rafaeli , Tal Svoray , Roni Blushtein-Livnon , Ariel Nahlieli

The goal of interactive image segmentation is to delineate specific regions within an image via visual or language prompts. Low-latency and high-quality interactive segmentation with diverse prompts remain challenging for existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qin Liu , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal , Marc Niethammer

Segmenting 3D objects into parts is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. To overcome taxonomy constraints and generalize to unseen 3D objects, recent works turn to open-world part segmentation. These approaches typically transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Le Wan , Rui Xu , Yiheng Zhang , Honghua Chen , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Mingqiang Wei

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that introduced revolutionary advancements in natural image segmentation. However, its performance remains sub-optimal when delineating the intricate structure of biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Xiangru Li , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) remains pivotal in structural biology, yet the task of protein particle picking, integral for 3D protein structure construction, is laden with manual inefficiencies. While recent AI tools such as Topaz and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Fei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Mingyue Gao , Biplab Poudel , Newgin Sam Ebin Sam Dhas , Rajan Gyawali , Ashwin Dhakal , Jianlin Cheng , Dong Xu

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Distinguishing nucleus instances from the estimated maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Kai Yao , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Jingxiong Li , Honglin Li , Yuxuan Sun , Ruizhe Guo , Lin Yang