English
Related papers

Related papers: Retrieval-augmented Few-shot Medical Image Segment…

200 papers

Deep learning-based automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning but remains challenging in few-shot scenarios due to the scarcity of annotated training data. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Weiguo Lu , You Zhang

Recent advances in medical image segmentation have been driven by deep learning; however, most existing methods remain limited by modality-specific designs and exhibit poor adaptability to dynamic medical imaging scenarios. The Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guoping Xu , Christopher Kabat , You Zhang

The unprecedented developments in segmentation foundational models have become a dominant force in the field of computer vision, introducing a multitude of previously unexplored capabilities in a wide range of natural images and videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen

Despite deep convolutional neural networks achieved impressive progress in medical image computing and analysis, its paradigm of supervised learning demands a large number of annotations for training to avoid overfitting and achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liyan Sun , Chenxin Li , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has great potential for medical imaging applications. Most of the existing FSS techniques require abundant annotated semantic classes for training. However, these methods may not be applicable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cheng Ouyang , Carlo Biffi , Chen Chen , Turkay Kart , Huaqi Qiu , Daniel Rueckert

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maciej A. Mazurowski , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Jichen Yang , Nicholas Konz , Yixin Zhang

Current state-of-the-art methods for panoptic segmentation require an immense amount of annotated training data that is both arduous and expensive to obtain posing a significant challenge for their widespread adoption. Concurrently, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Markus Käppeler , Kürsat Petek , Niclas Vödisch , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown strong performance in various vision tasks, particularly image segmentation, due to their impressive zero-shot segmentation capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Pengfei Gu , Haoteng Tang , Islam A. Ebeid , Jose A. Nunez , Fabian Vazquez , Diego Adame , Marcus Zhan , Huimin Li , Bin Fu , Danny Z. Chen

The high cost of obtaining accurate annotations for image segmentation and localization makes the use of one and few shot algorithms attractive. Several state-of-the-art methods for few-shot segmentation have emerged, including text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Gurunath Reddy , Dattesh Shanbhag , Deepa Anand

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Medical image segmentation and video object segmentation are essential for diagnosing and analyzing diseases by identifying and measuring biological structures. Recent advances in natural domain have been driven by foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

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

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen object categories from just a handful of annotated examples. This requires mechanisms that can both identify semantically related objects across images and accurately produce segmentation masks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claudia Cuttano , Gabriele Trivigno , Giuseppe Averta , Carlo Masone

Deep learning models have become the mainstream method for medical image segmentation, but they require a large manually labeled dataset for training and are difficult to extend to unseen categories. Few-shot segmentation(FSS) has the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Yao Huang , Jianming Liu

Recent advances in segmentation foundation models have enabled accurate and efficient segmentation across a wide range of natural images and videos, but their utility to medical data remains unclear. In this work, we first present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Feifei Li , Mohammed Baharoon , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

This work introduces a new framework, ProtoSAM, for one-shot medical image segmentation. It combines the use of prototypical networks, known for few-shot segmentation, with SAM - a natural image foundation model. The method proposed creates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lev Ayzenberg , Raja Giryes , Hayit Greenspan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a state-of-the-art research advancement in natural image segmentation, achieving impressive results with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. However, our evaluation and recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Junlong Cheng , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Jianpin Chen , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Jilong Chen , Lei Jiang , Hui Sun , Junjun He , Shaoting Zhang , Min Zhu , Yu Qiao

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excel in zero-shot segmentation for natural images but struggle with medical image segmentation due to differences in texture, contrast, and noise. Annotating medical images is costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Keerthi Sravan Ravi , Gopal Avinash , Ravi Soni

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