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Skull stripping magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the human brain is an important process in many image processing techniques, such as automatic segmentation of brain structures. Numerous methods have been developed to perform this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Hjalti Thrastarson , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Brain segmentation is a fundamental first step in neuroimage analysis. In the case of fetal MRI, it is particularly challenging and important due to the arbitrary orientation of the fetus, organs that surround the fetal head, and…

The emerging scale segmentation model, Segment Anything (SAM), exhibits impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation for natural images. However, when applied to medical images, SAM suffers from noticeable performance drop. To make SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced to the computer vision community by Meta in April 2023, is a groundbreaking tool that allows automated segmentation of objects in images based on prompts such as text, clicks, or bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Athulya Sundaresan Geetha , Muhammad Hussain

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

Gliomas, the most prevalent primary brain tumors, require precise segmentation for diagnosis and treatment planning. However, this task poses significant challenges, particularly in the African population, were limited access to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Mohannad Barakat , Noha Magdy , Jjuuko George William , Ethel Phiri , Raymond Confidence , Dong Zhang , Udunna C Anazodo

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a new image segmentation tool trained with the largest available segmentation dataset. The model has demonstrated that, with prompts, it can create high-quality masks for general images. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Zhangcong She , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

Medical image segmentation has become an essential technique in clinical and research-oriented applications. Because manual segmentation methods are tedious, and fully automatic segmentation lacks the flexibility of human intervention or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Kevin Karsch , Qing He , Ye Duan

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

Brain MR image segmentation is a key task in neuroimaging studies. It is commonly conducted using standard computational tools, such as FSL, SPM, multi-atlas segmentation etc, which are often registration-based and suffer from expensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Chengliang Dai , Yuanhan Mo , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

Purpose: The goal of this work was to develop a deep network for whole-head segmentation including clinical MRIs with abnormal anatomy, and compile the first public benchmark dataset for this purpose. We collected 98 MRIs with volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Andrew M Birnbaum , Adam Buchwald , Peter Turkeltaub , Adam Jacks , George Carra , Shreya Kannana , Yu Huang , Abhisheck Datta , Lucas C Parra , Lukas A Hirsch

Melanoma segmentation in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is useful for prognosis and the measurement of crucial prognostic factors such as Breslow depth and primary invasive tumor size. In this paper, we present a novel approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Qingyuan Liu , Avideh Zakhor

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

The recently proposed segment anything model (SAM) has made a significant influence in many computer vision tasks. It is becoming a foundation step for many high-level tasks, like image segmentation, image caption, and image editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Xu Zhao , Wenchao Ding , Yongqi An , Yinglong Du , Tao Yu , Min Li , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is pivotal in radiology, offering non-invasive and high-quality insights into the human body. Precise segmentation of MRIs into different organs and tissues would be highly beneficial since it would allow…

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Ward , Meredith K. Owen , O'Kira Coleman , Brian Noehren , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Computed tomography imaging is well accepted for its imaging speed, image contrast & resolution and cost. Thus it has wide use in detection and diagnosis of brain diseases. But unfortunately reported works on CT segmentation is not very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Soumi Ray , Vinod Kumar , Chirag Ahuja , Niranjan Khandelwal

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnostics and treatment planning, yet existing models often face challenges in generalization and in handling both 2D and 3D data uniformly. In this paper, we introduce Medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiayuan Zhu , Abdullah Hamdi , Yunli Qi , Yueming Jin , Junde Wu

Segmentation is an essential step for remote sensing image processing. This study aims to advance the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an innovative image segmentation model by Meta AI, in the field of remote sensing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lucas Prado Osco , Qiusheng Wu , Eduardo Lopes de Lemos , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , Jonathan Li , José Marcato Junior