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Promptable segmentation, introduced by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), is a promising approach for medical imaging, as it enables clinicians to guide and refine model predictions interactively. However, SAM's architecture is designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Théo Danielou , Daniel Tordjman , Pierre Manceron , Corentin Dancette

Adapting large pre-trained foundation models, e.g., SAM, for medical image segmentation remains a significant challenge. A crucial step involves the formulation of a series of specialized prompts that incorporate specific clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiuqi Zheng , Yuhang Zhang , Haoran Zhang , Hongrui Liang , Xueqi Bao , Zhuqing Jiang , Qicheng Lao

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates impressive zero-shot segmentation ability on natural images but encounters difficulties in medical imaging due to domain shifts, anatomical variability, and its reliance on user-provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yingzhen Hu , Yiheng Zhong , Ruobing Li , Yingxue Su , Jiabao An , Feilong Tang , Jionglong Su , Imran Razzak

This paper provides insights on the effectiveness of the zero shot, prompt-based Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its updated versions, SAM 2 and SAM 2.1, along with the non-promptable conventional neural network (CNN), for segmenting solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Osher Rafaeli , Tal Svoray , Roni Blushtein-Livnon , Ariel Nahlieli

Advances in machine learning, especially the introduction of transformer architectures and vision transformers, have led to the development of highly capable computer vision foundation models. The segment anything model (known colloquially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kenneth Ball , Erin Taylor , Nirav Patel , Andrew Bartels , Gary Koplik , James Polly , Jay Hineman

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model pretrained on millions of images and segmentation masks, has significantly advanced semantic segmentation, a fundamental task in computer vision. Despite its strengths, SAM encounters two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Ruiyi Zhang , Amirhosein Javadi , Pengtao Xie

Purpose: Accurate tool segmentation is essential in computer-aided procedures. However, this task conveys challenges due to artifacts' presence and the limited training data in medical scenarios. Methods that generalize to unseen data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Kanyifeechukwu J. Oguine , Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul , Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

Medical image segmentation has immense clinical applicability but remains a challenge despite advancements in deep learning. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits potential in this field, yet the requirement for expertise intervention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yinsong Xu , Jiaqi Tang , Aidong Men , Qingchao Chen

Parotid gland lesion segmentation is essential for the treatment of parotid gland diseases. However, due to the variable size and complex lesion boundaries, accurate parotid gland lesion segmentation remains challenging. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhongyuan Wu , Chuan-Xian Ren , Yu Wang , Xiaohua Ban , Jianning Xiao , Xiaohui Duan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong performance in image segmentation of natural scene images. However, its effectiveness diminishes markedly when applied to specific scientific domains, such as Scanning Probe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yao Shen , Ziwei Wei , Chunmeng Liu , Shuming Wei , Qi Zhao , Kaiyang Zeng , Guangyao Li

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model for semantic segmentation and shows excellent generalization capability with the prompts. In this empirical study, we investigate the robustness and zero-shot generalizability of the SAM in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byunghyun Kim

Interactive 3D point cloud segmentation enables efficient annotation of complex 3D scenes through user-guided prompts. However, current approaches are typically restricted in scope to a single domain (indoor or outdoor), and to a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Aniket Gupta , Hanhui Wang , Charles Saunders , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Hanumant Singh , Huaizu Jiang

Segment anything model (SAM), a foundation model with superior versatility and generalization across diverse segmentation tasks, has attracted widespread attention in medical imaging. However, it has been proved that SAM would encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Zhehao Wang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zengqiang Yan , Li Yu

Background: The segment-anything model (SAM), introduced in April 2023, shows promise as a benchmark model and a universal solution to segment various natural images. It comes without previously-required re-training or fine-tuning specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sheng He , Rina Bao , Jingpeng Li , Jeffrey Stout , Atle Bjornerud , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), a prompt-driven foundation model extending SAM to both image and video domains, has shown superior zero-shot performance compared to its predecessor. Building on SAM's success in medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Foundation models like the segment anything model require high-quality manual prompts for medical image segmentation, which is time-consuming and requires expertise. SAM and its variants often fail to segment structures in ultrasound (US)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Assefa Seyoum Wahd , Banafshe Felfeliyan , Yuyue Zhou , Shrimanti Ghosh , Adam McArthur , Jiechen Zhang , Jacob L. Jaremko , Abhilash Hareendranathan

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2 has demonstrated remarkable foundational competence in semantic segmentation, with its memory mechanism and mask decoder further addressing challenges in video tracking and object occlusion, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , An Wang , Wenzhen Dong , Mengya Xu , Mobarakol Islam , Jie Wang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren