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Purpose: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) promises to ease the annotation bottleneck in medical segmentation, but overlapping anatomy and blurred boundaries make its point prompts ambiguous, leading to cycles of manual refinement to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Adrien Meyer , Lorenzo Arboit , Giuseppe Massimiani , Shih-Min Yin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

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

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

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) remains pivotal in structural biology, yet the task of protein particle picking, integral for 3D protein structure construction, is laden with manual inefficiencies. While recent AI tools such as Topaz and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Fei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Mingyue Gao , Biplab Poudel , Newgin Sam Ebin Sam Dhas , Rajan Gyawali , Ashwin Dhakal , Jianlin Cheng , Dong Xu

Segment anything models (SAMs) are gaining attention for their zero-shot generalization capability in segmenting objects of unseen classes and in unseen domains when properly prompted. Interactivity is a key strength of SAMs, allowing users…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Yiqing Shen , Jingxing Li , Xinyuan Shao , Blanca Inigo Romillo , Ankush Jindal , David Dreizin , Mathias Unberath

Brain tumor segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the field of Medical Image Segmentation. While deep-learning models have been useful, human expert segmentation remains the most accurate method. The recently released Segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Mohammad Peivandi , Jason Zhang , Michael Lu , Dongxiao Zhu , Zhifeng Kou

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 Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant breakthrough into foundation models for computer vision, providing a large-scale image segmentation model. However, despite SAM's zero-shot performance, its segmentation masks lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xianjie Liu , Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Qijun Zhao

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has demonstrated remarkable promptable visual segmentation capabilities in video data, showing potential for extension to medical image segmentation (MIS) tasks involving 3D volumes and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Meng Lan , Lefei Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves remarkable promptable segmentation given high-quality prompts which, however, often require good skills to specify. To make SAM robust to casual prompts, this paper presents the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Qi Fan , Xin Tao , Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

Accurate myocardium segmentation across all phases in one cardiac cycle in cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scans is crucial for comprehensively cardiac function analysis. Despite advancements in deep learning (DL) for automatic cine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Zhennong Chen , Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

The remarkable capabilities of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for tackling image segmentation tasks in an intuitive and interactive manner has sparked interest in the design of effective visual prompts. Such interest has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jorge Quesada , Zoe Fowler , Mohammad Alotaibi , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Accurate organ segmentation is essential for clinical tasks such as radiotherapy planning and disease monitoring. Recent foundation models like MedSAM achieve strong results using point or bounding-box prompts but still require manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenjie Zhang , Liming Luo , Mengnan He , Jiarui Hai , Jiancheng Ye

Accurate segmentation of 3D medical images is critical for clinical applications like disease assessment and treatment planning. While the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable success in video object segmentation by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Yeqing Yang , Le Xu , Lixia Tian