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Medical images often exhibit distribution shifts due to variations in imaging protocols and scanners across different medical centers. Domain Generalization (DG) methods aim to train models on source domains that can generalize to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yihang Fu , Ziyang Chen , Yiwen Ye , Xingliang Lei , Zhisong Wang , Yong Xia

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to achieve high-quality segmentation without manual pixel-level annotations. Existing USS models provide coarse category classification for regions, but the results often have blurry and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tingting Li , Gensheng Pei , Xinhao Cai , Huafeng Liu , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in medical imaging analysis, medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled images for supervision. Further, the significant domain gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hedda Cohen Indelman , Elay Dahan , Angeles M. Perez-Agosto , Carmit Shiran , Doron Shaked , Nati Daniel

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

In clinical procedures, precise localization of the target area is an essential step for clinical diagnosis and screening. For many diagnostic applications, lung segmentation of chest X-ray images is an essential first step that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Mohamed Deriche , Mohammad Marufur

Automatic segmentation of medical images is crucial in modern clinical workflows. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a versatile tool for image segmentation without specific domain training, but it requires human prompts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yunxiang Li , Bowen Jing , Zihan Li , Jing Wang , You Zhang

Prompt-free image segmentation aims to generate accurate masks without manual guidance. Typical pre-trained models, notably Segmentation Anything Model (SAM), generate prompts directly at a single granularity level. However, this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min , Yi Zhang

Segmentation models such as Segment Anything Model (SAM) and SAM2 achieve strong prompt-driven zero-shot performance. However, their training on natural images limits domain transfer to medical data. Consequently, accurate segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tal Grossman , Noa Cahan , Lev Ayzenberg , Hayit Greenspan

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 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

Polyp segmentation is vital for early colorectal cancer detection, yet traditional fully supervised methods struggle with morphological variability and domain shifts, requiring frequent retraining. Additionally, reliance on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xinyu Mao , Xiaohan Xing , Fei Meng , Jianbang Liu , Fan Bai , Qiang Nie , Max Meng

Segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as the leading approach for zero-shot learning in segmentation tasks, offering the advantage of avoiding pixel-wise annotations. It is particularly appealing in medical image segmentation, where the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Ziyi Huang , Hongshan Liu , Haofeng Zhang , Xueshen Li , Haozhe Liu , Fuyong Xing , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

Deep learning based methods often suffer from performance degradation caused by domain shift. In recent years, many sophisticated network structures have been designed to tackle this problem. However, the advent of large model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhikai Wei , Wenhui Dong , Peilin Zhou , Yuliang Gu , Zhou Zhao , Yongchao Xu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Pancreatic cancer carries a poor prognosis and relies on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for targeted biopsy and radiotherapy. However, the speckle noise, low contrast, and unintuitive appearance of EUS make segmentation of pancreatic tumors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Pascal Spiegler , Taha Koleilat , Arash Harirpoush , Corey S. Miller , Hassan Rivaz , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

Recently, foundation models trained on massive datasets to adapt to a wide range of tasks have attracted considerable attention and are actively being explored within the computer vision community. Among these, the Segment Anything Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Jun-Seok Yun , Yuseok Bae

The newly released Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a popular tool used in image processing due to its superior segmentation accuracy, variety of input prompts, training capabilities, and efficient model design. However, its current model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Aimee Guo , Grace Fei , Hemanth Pasupuleti , Jing Wang