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Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, yet privacy constraints hinder data sharing across institutions. Federated learning addresses this limitation, but existing approaches often rely on lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tong Wang , Xingyue Zhao , Linghao Zhuang , Haoyu Zhao , Jiayi Yin , Yuyang He , Gang Yu , Bo Lin

Rectal cancer segmentation of CT image plays a crucial role in timely clinical diagnosis, radiotherapy treatment, and follow-up. Although current segmentation methods have shown promise in delineating cancerous tissues, they still encounter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Hantao Zhang , Weidong Guo , Chenyang Qiu , Shouhong Wan , Bingbing Zou , Wanqin Wang , Peiquan Jin

Cardiac anatomy segmentation is useful for clinical assessment of cardiac morphology to inform diagnosis and intervention. Deep learning (DL), especially with motion information, has improved segmentation accuracy. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Guang Yang , Choon Hwai Yap

Brain magnetic resonance (MR) segmentation for hydrocephalus patients is considered as a challenging work. Encoding the variation of the brain anatomical structures from different individuals cannot be easily achieved. The task becomes even…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Xuhua Ren , Jiayu Huo , Kai Xuan , Dongming Wei , Lichi Zhang , Qian Wang

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

We present SAM4EM, a novel approach for 3D segmentation of complex neural structures in electron microscopy (EM) data by leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) alongside advanced fine-tuning strategies. Our contributions include the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Uzair Shah , Marco Agus , Daniya Boges , Vanessa Chiappini , Mahmood Alzubaidi , Jens Schneider , Markus Hadwiger , Pierre J. Magistretti , Mowafa Househ , Corrado Calı

Accurate image segmentation is crucial in reservoir modelling and material characterization, enhancing oil and gas extraction efficiency through detailed reservoir models. This precision offers insights into rock properties, advancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhaoyang Ma , Xupeng He , Shuyu Sun , Bicheng Yan , Hyung Kwak , Jun Gao

Although Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is the most important imaging for visualizing cerebrovascular anatomy, its interpretation by clinicians remains difficult. This is particularly true when treating arteriovenous malformations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Kathleen Baur , Xin Xiong , Erickson Torio , Rose Du , Parikshit Juvekar , Reuben Dorent , Alexandra Golby , Sarah Frisken , Nazim Haouchine

Despite the considerable progress in automatic abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT/MRI scans in recent years, a comprehensive evaluation of the models' capabilities is hampered by the lack of a large-scale benchmark from diverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yuanfeng Ji , Haotian Bai , Jie Yang , Chongjian Ge , Ye Zhu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Lingyan Zhang , Wanling Ma , Xiang Wan , Ping Luo

Creating a dataset for training supervised machine learning algorithms can be a demanding task. This is especially true for medical image segmentation since one or more specialists are usually required for image annotation, and creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Matheus Viana da Silva , Natália de Carvalho Santos , Julie Ouellette , Baptiste Lacoste , Cesar Henrique Comin

Organs-at-risk (OAR) delineation in computed tomography (CT) is an important step in Radiation Therapy (RT) planning. Recently, deep learning based methods for OAR delineation have been proposed and applied in clinical practice for separate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Shanlin Sun , Yang Liu , Narisu Bai , Hao Tang , Xuming Chen , Qian Huang , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Clinically, the accurate annotation of lesions/tissues can significantly facilitate the disease diagnosis. For example, the segmentation of optic disc/cup (OD/OC) on fundus image would facilitate the glaucoma diagnosis, the segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Junde Wu , Huihui Fang , Fangxin Shang , Dalu Yang , Zhaowei Wang , Jing Gao , Yehui Yang , Yanwu Xu

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) 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

With recent breakthroughs in large-scale modeling, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated significant potential in a variety of visual applications. However, due to the lack of underwater domain expertise, SAM and its variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hua Li , Shijie Lian , Zhiyuan Li , Runmin Cong , Chongyi Li , Laurence T. Yang , Weidong Zhang , Sam Kwong

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most prominent objects in images. Advanced SOD methods often utilize various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Transformers for deep feature extraction. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixuan Gao , Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Huchuan Lu

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

Analyzing human vasculature and vessel-like, tubular structures, such as airways, is crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment. Current methods often rely on small sub-regions or simplified tree-like structures, rendering analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chinmay Prabhakar , Bastian Wittmann , Paul Büschl , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit