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In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

The medical image processing field often encounters the critical issue of scarce annotated data. Transfer learning has emerged as a solution, yet how to select an adequate source task and effectively transfer the knowledge to the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Jingyun Yang , Jingge Wang , Guoqing Zhang , Yang Li

Referring medical image segmentation targets delineating lesions indicated by textual descriptions. Aligning visual and textual cues is challenging due to their distinct data properties. Inspired by large-scale pre-trained vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yaxiong Chen , Minghong Wei , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Text-guided medical segmentation enhances segmentation accuracy by utilizing clinical reports as auxiliary information. However, existing methods typically rely on unaligned image and text encoders, which necessitate complex interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gaoren Lin , Huangxuan Zhao , Yuan Xiong , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Wentao Zhu

Surgical scene segmentation is critical in computer-assisted surgery and is vital for enhancing surgical quality and patient outcomes. Recently, referring surgical segmentation is emerging, given its advantage of providing surgeons with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Haofeng Liu , Mingqi Gao , Xuxiao Luo , Ziyue Wang , Guanyi Qin , Junde Wu , Yueming Jin

Text guided 3D medical image segmentation offers a flexible alternative to class based and spatial prompt based models by allowing users to specify regions of interest directly in natural language. This paradigm avoids reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yu Xin , Gorkem Can Ates , Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Ying Zhang , Kaleb E Smith , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

Domain gaps arising from variations in imaging devices and population distributions pose significant challenges for machine learning in medical image analysis. Existing image-to-image translation methods primarily aim to learn mappings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Tianyang Zhang , Xinxing Cheng , Jun Cheng , Shaoming Zheng , He Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Alejandro F Frangi , Jiang Liu , Jinming Duan

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

In medical imaging, there are clinically relevant segmentation tasks where the output mask is a projection to a subset of input image dimensions. In this work, we propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Dmitrii Lachinov , Philipp Seeboeck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

Deep learning has been widely accepted as a promising solution for medical image segmentation, given a sufficiently large representative dataset of images with corresponding annotations. With ever increasing amounts of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Foundation models have transformed vision and language by learning general-purpose representations from large-scale unlabeled data, yet 3D medical imaging lacks analogous approaches. Existing self-supervised methods rely on low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yunhe Gao , Yabin Zhang , Chong Wang , Jiaming Liu , Maya Varma , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Akshay Chaudhari , Curtis Langlotz

Referring 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

Foundation models have reshaped the landscape of Remote Sensing (RS) by enhancing various image interpretation tasks. Pretraining is an active research topic, encompassing supervised and self-supervised learning methods to initialize model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dongsheng Wang , Erzhong Gao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) has achieved notable progress, yet most existing methods mainly rely on semantic correspondences from scarce annotations while under-utilizing a key property of medical imagery: anatomical targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhihao Mao , Bangpu Chen

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited fine-grained annotations, complex anatomical structures, and image degradation from noise, low contrast, or illumination variation. We propose TAMISeg, a text-guided segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qiang Gao , Yi Wang , Yong Zhang , Yong Li , Yongbing Deng , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen

This paper aims to build a model that can Segment Anything in 3D medical images, driven by medical terminologies as Text prompts, termed as SAT. Our main contributions are three-fold: (i) We construct the first multimodal knowledge tree on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Ziheng Zhao , Yao Zhang , Chaoyi Wu , Xiaoman Zhang , Xiao Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Most publicly available medical segmentation datasets are only partially labeled, with annotations provided for a subset of anatomical structures. When multiple datasets are combined for training, this incomplete annotation poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiong Wu , Yang Xing , Boxiao Yu , Wei Shao , Kuang Gong

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

The limited availability of labeled data has driven advancements in semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation. Modern large-scale models tailored for general segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Kaiwen Huang , Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Chen Gong , Dong Liang