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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

Segment Anything Models (SAMs) have gained increasing attention in medical image analysis due to their zero-shot generalization capability in segmenting objects of unseen classes and domains when provided with appropriate user prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xinyuan Shao , Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

The success of deep convolutional neural networks is partially attributed to the massive amount of annotated training data. However, in practice, medical data annotations are usually expensive and time-consuming to be obtained. Considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Kang Li , Lequan Yu , Shujun Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) signifies a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen , Rushi Jiao

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one proposed solution to large model sizes and slow inference speed in semantic segmentation. In our research we identify 25 proposed distillation loss terms from 14 publications in the last 4 years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Onno Niemann , Christopher Vox , Thorben Werner

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a transformative approach in image segmentation, acclaimed for its robust zero-shot segmentation capabilities and flexible prompting system. Nonetheless, its performance is challenged by images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Jiet Vong , Sy-Yen Kuo , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), originally built on a 2D Vision Transformer (ViT), excels at capturing global patterns in 2D natural images but struggles with 3D medical imaging modalities like CT and MRI. These modalities require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiang Gao , Kai Lu

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

In computer vision, object detection is an important task that finds its application in many scenarios. However, obtaining extensive labels can be challenging, especially in crowded scenes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zhi Cai , Yingjie Gao , Yaoyan Zheng , Nan Zhou , Di Huang

We propose a novel medical image classification method that integrates dual-model weight selection with self-knowledge distillation (SKD). In real-world medical settings, deploying large-scale models is often limited by computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ayaka Tsutsumi , Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Satoshi Kondo , Miki Haseyama

Semantic segmentation requires a holistic understanding of the physical world, as it assigns semantic labels to spatially continuous and structurally coherent objects rather than to isolated pixels. However, existing data-free knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongxuan Sun , Tao Wu

Foundation models for image segmentation have shown strong generalization in natural images, yet their applicability to 3D medical imaging remains limited. In this work, we study the zero-shot use of Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Miquel Lopez Escoriza , Pau Amargant Alvarez

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a notable milestone in segmentation models, highlighted by its robust zero-shot capabilities and ability to handle diverse prompts. SAM follows a pipeline that separates interactive segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 You Huang , Zongyu Lan , Liujuan Cao , Xianming Lin , Shengchuan Zhang , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates impressive zero-shot segmentation ability on natural images but encounters difficulties in medical imaging due to domain shifts, anatomical variability, and its reliance on user-provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yingzhen Hu , Yiheng Zhong , Ruobing Li , Yingxue Su , Jiabao An , Feilong Tang , Jionglong Su , Imran Razzak

Due to the flexibility of prompting, foundation models have become the dominant force in the domains of natural language processing and image generation. With the recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), the prompt-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Yichi Zhang , Rushi Jiao

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a powerful tool for numerous vision applications. A key component that drives the impressive performance for zero-shot transfer and high versatility is a super large Transformer model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yunyang Xiong , Bala Varadarajan , Lemeng Wu , Xiaoyu Xiang , Fanyi Xiao , Chenchen Zhu , Xiaoliang Dai , Dilin Wang , Fei Sun , Forrest Iandola , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra

Curating annotations for medical image segmentation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task that requires domain expertise, resulting in "narrowly" focused deep learning (DL) models with limited translational utility. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Pranav Kulkarni , Adway Kanhere , Dharmam Savani , Andrew Chan , Devina Chatterjee , Paul H. Yi , Vishwa S. Parekh

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM), known for its remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities, has garnered significant attention in the community. Nevertheless, its performance is challenged when dealing with what we refer to as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guangqian Guo , Pengfei Chen , Yong Guo , Huafeng Chen , Boqiang Zhang , Shan Gao