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We introduce Medal S, a medical segmentation foundation model that supports native-resolution spatial and textual prompts within an end-to-end trainable framework. Unlike text-only methods lacking spatial awareness, Medal S achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pengcheng Shi , Jiawei Chen , Jiaqi Liu , Xinglin Zhang , Tao Chen , Lei Li

Prompt quality plays a critical role in the performance of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), yet existing approaches often rely on heuristic or manually crafted prompts, limiting scalability and generalization. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xueyu Liu , Xiaoyi Zhang , Guangze Shi , Meilin Liu , Yexin Lai , Yongfei Wu , Mingqiang Wei

The development of machine learning models for CT imaging depends on the availability of large, high-quality, and diverse annotated datasets. Although large volumes of CT images and reports are readily available in clinical picture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Samuel Church , Joshua D. Warner , Danyal Maqbool , Xin Tie , Junjie Hu , Meghan G. Lubner , Tyler J. Bradshaw

Leveraging pre-trained models with tailored prompts for in-context learning has proven highly effective in NLP tasks. Building on this success, recent studies have applied a similar approach to the Segment Anything Model (SAM) within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hangyul Yoon , Doohyuk Jang , Jungeun Kim , Eunho Yang

Purpose: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance with point, text or bounding box prompts, in various applications. However, in safety-critical surgical tasks, prompting is not possible due to (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyang Sheng , Sophia Bano , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has attracted widespread attention for its superior interactive segmentation capabilities with visual prompts while lacking further exploration of text prompts. In this paper, we empirically investigate what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lianghui Zhu , Rui Hu , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and similar models build a family of promptable foundation models (FMs) for image and video segmentation. The object of interest is identified using prompts, such as bounding boxes or points. With these FMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Caroline Magg , Hoel Kervadec , Clara I. Sánchez

Extracting small objects from remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various applications, including urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. While current research primarily focuses on small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chenhao Wang , Yingrui Ji , Yu Meng , Yunjian Zhang , Yao Zhu

Given a single labeled example, in-context segmentation aims to segment corresponding objects. This setting, known as one-shot segmentation in few-shot learning, explores the segmentation model's generalization ability and has been applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Mengshi Qi , Pengfei Zhu , Xiangtai Li , Xiaoyang Bi , Lu Qi , Huadong Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have significantly impacted medical image segmentation, especially in retinal imaging, where precise segmentation is vital for diagnosis. Despite this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhihao Zhao , Yinzheng Zhao , Junjie Yang , Xiangtong Yao , Quanmin Liang , Shahrooz Faghihroohi , Kai Huang , Nassir Navab , M. Ali Nasseri

Vision-language segmentation models have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging high-level semantic object categories expressed in natural language. However, this semantic dependence limits their ability to reason about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Corentin Seutin , Mohamed Amine Ettaki , Michaël Clément , Pierrick Coupé , Rémi Giraud

In this work, we address the task of few-shot part segmentation, which aims to segment the different parts of an unseen object using very few labeled examples. It is found that leveraging the textual space of a powerful pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengya Han , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Jing Zhang , Yonggang Wen

Many automated processes such as auto-piloting rely on a good semantic segmentation as a critical component. To speed up performance, it is common to downsample the input frame. However, this comes at the cost of missed small objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Dmitrii Marin , Zijian He , Peter Vajda , Priyam Chatterjee , Sam Tsai , Fei Yang , Yuri Boykov

The effectiveness of prompt learning has been demonstrated in different pre-trained language models. By formulating suitable template and choosing representative label mapping, prompt learning can be used as an efficient knowledge probe.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jinta Weng , Yue Hu , Jing Qiu , Heyan Huan

While the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels in semantic segmentation for general-purpose images, its performance significantly deteriorates when applied to medical images, primarily attributable to insufficient representation of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yiming Zhang , Tianang Leng , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

Segment Anything Models (SAM) have made significant advancements in image segmentation, allowing users to segment target portions of an image with a single click (i.e., user prompt). Given its broad applications, the robustness of SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yifan Shen , Zhengyuan Li , Gang Wang

In this paper, we present PRISM, a Promptable and Robust Interactive Segmentation Model, aiming for precise segmentation of 3D medical images. PRISM accepts various visual inputs, including points, boxes, and scribbles as sparse prompts, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Tooth point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in many orthodontic applications. Current research mainly focuses on fully supervised learning which demands expensive and tedious manual point-wise annotation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hui Chen , Yixuan Yuan

Multi-organ medical segmentation is a crucial component of medical image processing, essential for doctors to make accurate diagnoses and develop effective treatment plans. Despite significant progress in this field, current multi-organ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Xinlei Yu , Changmiao Wang , Hui Jin , Ahmed Elazab , Gangyong Jia , Xiang Wan , Changqing Zou , Ruiquan Ge

The landscape of publicly available vision foundation models (VFMs), such as CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM), is expanding rapidly. VFMs are endowed with distinct capabilities stemming from their pre-training objectives. For instance,…