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Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is widely used for segmenting a diverse range of objects in natural images from simple user prompts like points or bounding boxes. However, SAM's performance decreases substantially when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tristan Piater , Björn Barz , Alexander Freytag

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on textual descriptions. Although Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable performance in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fu Rong , Meng Lan , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

Accurate vessel segmentation is critical for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis and surgical planning, yet remains challenging due to thin, branching structures and low texture contrast. While foundation models like the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Suzhong Fu , Rui Sun , Xuan Ding , Jingqi Dong , Yiming Yang , Yao Zhu , Min Chang Jordan Ren , Delin Deng , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have heightened interest in promptable zero-shot segmentation. Although these models perform strongly on natural images, their behavior on medical data remains insufficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Satrajit Chakrabarty , Ravi Soni

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has exhibited outstanding performance in various image segmentation tasks. Despite being trained with over a billion masks, SAM faces challenges in mask prediction quality in numerous scenarios, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhaozhi Xie , Bochen Guan , Weihao Jiang , Muyang Yi , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Lei Zhang

Fully supervised deep learning (DL) models for surgical video segmentation have been shown to struggle with non-adversarial, real-world corruptions of image quality including smoke, bleeding, and low illumination. Foundation models for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Yiqing Shen , Hao Ding , Xinyuan Shao , Mathias Unberath

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across numerous natural image segmentation tasks. However, SAM's performance significantly declines when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Cheng Chen , Juzheng Miao , Dufan Wu , Zhiling Yan , Sekeun Kim , Jiang Hu , Aoxiao Zhong , Zhengliang Liu , Lichao Sun , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Quanzheng Li

Foundation segmentation models such as SAM and SAM-2 perform well on natural images but struggle with brain MRIs where structures like the caudate and thalamus lack sharp boundaries and have low contrast. Rather than fine tune these models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Keith Moore

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

Manual annotation of volumetric medical images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Recent advancements in foundation models for video object segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yuwen Chen , Zafer Yildiz , Qihang Li , Yaqian Chen , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Nicholas Konz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a prompt-guided video foundation model, has remarkably performed in video object segmentation, drawing significant attention in the community. Due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xin Zhang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

With the proposal of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), fine-tuning SAM for medical image segmentation (MIS) has become popular. However, due to the large size of the SAM model and the significant domain gap between natural and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jinfeng Wang , Sifan Song , Xinkun Wang , Yiyi Wang , Yiyi Miao , Jionglong Su , S. Kevin Zhou

Interactive medical image segmentation (IMIS) has shown significant potential in enhancing segmentation accuracy by integrating iterative feedback from medical professionals. However, the limited availability of enough 3D medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Yuhang Shi , Xiangfeng Wang

Purpose: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance with point, text or bounding box prompts, in various applications. However, in safety-critical surgical tasks, prompting is not possible due to (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyang Sheng , Sophia Bano , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that has revolutionised image segmentation. To apply SAM to surgical instrument segmentation, a common approach is to locate precise points or boxes of instruments and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

Accurate tongue segmentation is crucial for reliable TCM analysis. Supervised models require large annotated datasets, while SAM-family models remain prompt-driven. We present Memory-SAM, a training-free, human-prompt-free pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Joongwon Chae , Lihui Luo , Xi Yuan , Dongmei Yu , Zhenglin Chen , Lian Zhang , Peiwu Qin