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The development of 2D foundation models for image segmentation has been significantly advanced by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, achieving similar success in 3D models remains a challenge due to issues such as non-unified data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayuan Gu , Tung Yen Chiang , Fanbo Xiang , Hao Su

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Single-point annotation in visual tasks, with the goal of minimizing labelling costs, is becoming increasingly prominent in research. Recently, visual foundation models, such as Segment Anything (SAM), have gained widespread usage due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhaoyang Wei , Pengfei Chen , Xuehui Yu , Guorong Li , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

Purpose: To evaluate various Segmental Anything Model (SAM) prompt strategies across four lesions datasets and to subsequently develop a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to optimize SAM prompt placement. Materials and Methods: This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Yuli Wang , Victoria Shi , Wen-Chi Hsu , Yuwei Dai , Sophie Yao , Zhusi Zhong , Zishu Zhang , Jing Wu , Aaron Maxwell , Scott Collins , Zhicheng Jiao , Harrison X. Bai

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

Melanoma segmentation in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is useful for prognosis and the measurement of crucial prognostic factors such as Breslow depth and primary invasive tumor size. In this paper, we present a novel approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Qingyuan Liu , Avideh Zakhor

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

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 revolutionized interactive segmentation through spatial prompting. While existing work primarily focuses on automating prompts in various settings, real-world annotation workflows involve iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Prithwijit Chowdhury , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

We present SAM4D, a multi-modal and temporal foundation model designed for promptable segmentation across camera and LiDAR streams. Unified Multi-modal Positional Encoding (UMPE) is introduced to align camera and LiDAR features in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jianyun Xu , Song Wang , Ziqian Ni , Chunyong Hu , Sheng Yang , Jianke Zhu , Qiang Li

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently demonstrated significant potential in medical image segmentation. Although SAM is primarily trained on 2D images, attempts have been made to apply it to 3D medical image segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fangda Chen , Jintao Tang , Pancheng Wang , Ting Wang , Shasha Li , Ting Deng

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a big leap in scaling up segmentation models, allowing for powerful zero-shot capabilities and flexible prompting. Despite being trained with 1.1 billion masks, SAM's mask prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Martin Danelljan , Yifan Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

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

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable zero-shot segmentation capability; however, its prohibitive computational costs make edge deployment challenging. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) offers a promising compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Chengzhi Hu , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

Segment Anything Model (SAM) fine-tuning has shown remarkable performance in medical image segmentation in a fully supervised manner, but requires precise annotations. To reduce the annotation cost and maintain satisfactory performance, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shumeng Li , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Segment Anything (SAM) provides an unprecedented foundation for human segmentation, but may struggle under occlusion, where keypoints may be partially or fully invisible. We adapt SAM 2.1 for pose-guided segmentation with minimal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Constantin Kolomiiets , Miroslav Purkrabek , Jiri Matas

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