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It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

Pathology image segmentation is crucial in computational pathology for analyzing histological features relevant to cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, current methods face major challenges in clinical applications due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Liqi Lin , Yihui Wang , Yequan Bie , Xi Wang , Yanning Zhou , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Hao Chen

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

In this paper, we propose a novel text promptable surgical instrument segmentation approach to overcome challenges associated with diversity and differentiation of surgical instruments in minimally invasive surgeries. We redefine the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zijian Zhou , Oluwatosin Alabi , Meng Wei , Tom Vercauteren , Miaojing Shi

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord

Thanks to the powerful language comprehension capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), existing instruction-based image editing methods have introduced Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to promote information exchange between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yujie Hu , Zecheng Tang , Xu Jiang , Weiqi Li , Jian Zhang

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

Foundation vision-language models are currently transforming computer vision, and are on the rise in medical imaging fueled by their very promising generalization capabilities. However, the initial attempts to transfer this new paradigm to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Hadi Chakor , Riadh Kobbi , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Medical image segmentation is a critical component in clinical practice, facilitating accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, existing methods, often tailored to specific modalities or disease types, lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jun Ma , Yuting He , Feifei Li , Lin Han , Chenyu You , Bo Wang

Foundation models (FMs) have shown transformative potential in radiology by performing diverse, complex tasks across imaging modalities. Here, we developed CT-FM, a large-scale 3D image-based pre-trained model designed explicitly for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Suraj Pai , Ibrahim Hadzic , Dennis Bontempi , Keno Bressem , Benjamin H. Kann , Andriy Fedorov , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

Promptable Foundation Models (FMs), initially introduced for natural image segmentation, have also revolutionized medical image segmentation. The increasing number of models, along with evaluations varying in datasets, metrics, and compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Caroline Magg , Maaike A. ter Wee , Johannes G. G. Dobbe , Geert J. Streekstra , Leendert Blankevoort , Clara I. Sánchez , Hoel Kervadec

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

Surgical image segmentation is essential for robot-assisted surgery and intraoperative guidance. However, existing methods are constrained to predefined categories, produce one-shot predictions without adaptive refinement, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Qi Chang , Nan Xi , Luyuan Xie , Zichao Li , Tianyu Luan

Combining Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) with diffusion models offers a powerful method for executing image editing tasks based on human language instructions. However, language instructions alone often fall short in accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianshuo Yuan , Yuxiang Lin , Jue Wang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Xiaolong Wang , Jiao GH , Wei Chen , Xiaojiang Peng

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis, yet existing models are limited by their reliance on explicit human instructions and lack the active reasoning capabilities to understand complex clinical questions. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yu Huang , Zelin Peng , Yichen Zhao , Piao Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

With the development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many efforts have been made to handle medical image segmentation. Traditional methods such as nnUNet train specific segmentation models on the individual datasets. Plenty of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xiaobao Wei , Jiajun Cao , Yizhu Jin , Ming Lu , Guangyu Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Segmenting 3D blood vessels is a critical yet challenging task in medical image analysis. This is due to significant imaging modality-specific variations in artifacts, vascular patterns and scales, signal-to-noise ratios, and background…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Bastian Wittmann , Yannick Wattenberg , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze

Current deep learning models are mostly task specific and lack a user-friendly interface to operate. We present Meta-EyeFM, a multi-function foundation model that integrates a large language model (LLM) with vision foundation models (VFMs)…

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-trained models provide the zero-shot model achieving competitive performance across a range of image classification tasks without requiring training on downstream data. Recent works have confirmed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Giung Nam , Byeongho Heo , Juho Lee

In the evolving landscape of computer vision, foundation models have emerged as pivotal tools, exhibiting exceptional adaptability to a myriad of tasks. Among these, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) by Meta AI has distinguished itself in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Bo Li , Haoke Xiao , Lv Tang