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The semantic segmentation task in pathology plays an indispensable role in assisting physicians in determining the condition of tissue lesions. With the proposal of Segment Anything Model (SAM), more and more foundation models have seen…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Mingya Zhang , Liang Wang , Zhihao Chen , Yiyuan Ge , Xianping Tao

Medical image segmentation is challenging due to overlapping anatomies with ambiguous boundaries and a severe imbalance between the foreground and background classes, which particularly affects the delineation of small lesions. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hao Shao , Qibin Hou

In the era of information explosion, efficiently leveraging large-scale unlabeled data while minimizing the reliance on high-quality pixel-level annotations remains a critical challenge in the field of medical imaging. Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hongjie Zhu , Xiwei Liu , Rundong Xue , Zeyu Zhang , Yong Xu , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai , Yang Zhao

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Traditional approaches typically strive to tackle all medical image segmentation scenarios via one-time learning. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhaori Liu , Mengyang Li , Hu Han , Enli Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Zhiming Zhao

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Medical image segmentation has been traditionally approached by training or fine-tuning the entire model to cater to any new modality or dataset. However, this approach often requires tuning a large number of parameters during training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Promptable segmentation foundation models such as SAM3 have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities through interactive and concept-based prompting. However, their direct applicability to medical image segmentation remains limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chongcong Jiang , Tianxingjian Ding , Chuhan Song , Jiachen Tu , Ziyang Yan , Yihua Shao , Zhenyi Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Tianyu Han , Yu Tian

With the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) as a foundational model for image segmentation, its application has been extensively studied across various domains, including the medical field. However, its potential in the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 SeungKyu Kim , Hyun-Jic Oh , Seonghui Min , Won-Ki Jeong

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful vision foundation model that is revolutionizing the traditional paradigm of segmentation. Despite this, a reliance on prompting each frame and large computational cost limit its usage in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zijian Wu , Adam Schmidt , Peter Kazanzides , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Recent "segment anything" efforts show promise by learning from large-scale data, but adapting such models directly to medical images remains challenging due to the complexity of medical data, noisy annotations, and continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhiling Yan , Sifan Song , Dingjie Song , Yiwei Li , Rong Zhou , Weixiang Sun , Zhennong Chen , Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

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

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

Background: In the field of radiology and radiotherapy, accurate delineation of tissues and organs plays a crucial role in both diagnostics and therapeutics. While the gold standard remains expert-driven manual segmentation, many automatic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Szuzina Fazekas , Bettina Katalin Budai , Viktor Bérczi , Pál Maurovich-Horvat , Zsolt Vizi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits promise in generic object segmentation and offers potential for various applications. Existing methods have applied SAM to surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) by tuning SAM-based frameworks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Qiuxia Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

The precise tracking and segmentation of surgical instruments have led to a remarkable enhancement in the efficiency of surgical procedures. However, the challenge lies in achieving accurate segmentation of surgical instruments while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , Long Bai , Guankun Wang , An Wang , Xiaoxiao Yang , Huxin Gao , Hongliang Ren

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Existing volumetric medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific, excelling at specific target but struggling to generalize across anatomical structures or modalities. This limitation restricts their broader clinical use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haoyu Wang , Sizheng Guo , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Junlong Cheng , Tianbin Li , Jianpin Chen , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Yiqing Shen , Bin Fu , Shaoting Zhang , Junjun He , Yu Qiao

CLIP has enabled new and exciting joint vision-language applications, one of which is open-vocabulary segmentation, which can locate any segment given an arbitrary text query. In our research, we ask whether it is possible to discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Pitchaporn Rewatbowornwong , Nattanat Chatthee , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Xing , Pheng-Ann Heng