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Surgical video segmentation is fundamental to computer-assisted surgery. In practice, surgeons need to dynamically specify targets throughout extended procedures, using heterogeneous cues such as visual selections, textual expressions, or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Haofeng Liu , Ziyue Wang , Alex Y. W. Kong , Guanyi Qin , Yunqiu Xu , Chang Han Low , Mingqi Gao , Lap Yan Lennon Chan , Yueming Jin

We present CataractSAM-2, a domain-adapted extension of Meta's Segment Anything Model 2, designed for real-time semantic segmentation of cataract ophthalmic surgery videos with high accuracy. Positioned at the intersection of computer…

Summary: SAMRI is an MRI-specialized adaptation of the Segment Anything Model achieving superior whole-body MRI segmentation, particularly for small and clinically critical structures, through box and point prompts for rapid annotation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhao Wang , Wei Dai , Thuy Thanh Dao , Steffen Bollmann , Hongfu Sun , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) serves as a core foundation model in the field of video segmentation. Building upon the original SAM model, it introduces a memory bank mechanism and demonstrates outstanding performance in tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyuan Ding , Yijing Yang , Han Shu , Xinghao Chen

Real-time video segmentation is a promising opportunity for AI-assisted surgery, offering intraoperative guidance by identifying tools and anatomical structures. Despite growing interest in surgical video segmentation, annotation protocols…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Utku Ozbulak , Seyed Amir Mousavi , Francesca Tozzi , Niki Rashidian , Wouter Willaert , Wesley De Neve , Joris Vankerschaver

In this paper, we explore a principal way to enhance the quality of widely pre-existing coarse masks, enabling them to serve as reliable training data for segmentation models to reduce the annotation cost. In contrast to prior refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuqi Lin , Hengjia Li , Wenqi Shao , Zheng Yang , Jun Zhao , Xiaofei He , Ping Luo , Kaipeng Zhang

Robot-assisted surgery has made significant progress, with instrument segmentation being a critical factor in surgical intervention quality. It serves as the building block to facilitate surgical robot navigation and surgical education for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Guang Yang , Yike Guo , Shichen Zhang , Bo Xu , Yueming Jin

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

Recent video foundation models such as SAM2 excel at prompted video segmentation by treating masks as a general-purpose primitive. However, many real-world settings require unprompted segmentation that aims to detect and track all objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Miran Heo , Sukjun Hwang , Min-Hung Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Albert Gu , Seon Joo Kim , Ryo Hachiuma

The development of machine learning models for CT imaging depends on the availability of large, high-quality, and diverse annotated datasets. Although large volumes of CT images and reports are readily available in clinical picture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Samuel Church , Joshua D. Warner , Danyal Maqbool , Xin Tie , Junjie Hu , Meghan G. Lubner , Tyler J. Bradshaw

Creating annotations for 3D medical data is time-consuming and often requires highly specialized expertise. Various tools have been implemented to aid this process. Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) offers a general-purpose prompt-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Zafer Yildiz , Yuwen Chen , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

We propose a novel solution for semi-supervised video object segmentation. By the nature of the problem, available cues (e.g. video frame(s) with object masks) become richer with the intermediate predictions. However, the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Seoung Wug Oh , Joon-Young Lee , Ning Xu , Seon Joo Kim

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Few-shot video object segmentation aims to reduce annotation costs; however, existing methods still require abundant dense frame annotations for training, which are scarce in the medical domain. We investigate an extremely low-data regime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Surgical video segmentation is a critical task in computer-assisted surgery and is vital for enhancing surgical quality and patient outcomes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) framework has shown superior advancements in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haofeng Liu , Erli Zhang , Junde Wu , Mingxuan Hong , Yueming Jin

Background: We evaluate SAM 2 for surgical scene understanding by examining its semantic segmentation capabilities for organs/tissues both in zero-shot scenarios and after fine-tuning. Methods: We utilized five public datasets to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Devanish N. Kamtam , Joseph B. Shrager , Satya Deepya Malla , Xiaohan Wang , Nicole Lin , Juan J. Cardona , Serena Yeung-Levy , Clarence Hu

The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

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

Modern surgical systems increasingly rely on intelligent scene understanding to improve intra-operative safety and situational awareness, with surgical scene segmentation playing a fundamental role in fine-grained surgical perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shihao Zou , Jingjing Li , Wei Ji , Jincai Huang , Kai Wang , Guo Dan , Weixin Si , Yi Pan