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This study introduces SAMatch, a SAM-guided Match-based framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation, aimed at improving pseudo label quality in data-scarce scenarios. While Match-based frameworks are effective, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Guoping Xu , Xiaoxue Qian , Hua Chieh Shao , Jax Luo , Weiguo Lu , You Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is widely used for segmenting a diverse range of objects in natural images from simple user prompts like points or bounding boxes. However, SAM's performance decreases substantially when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tristan Piater , Björn Barz , Alexander Freytag

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis. The Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) serves as a powerful foundation model for visual segmentation and can be adapted for medical image segmentation. However, medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yuxi Liu , Guibo Luo , Yuesheng Zhu

As an important pillar of underwater intelligence, Marine Animal Segmentation (MAS) involves segmenting animals within marine environments. Previous methods don't excel in extracting long-range contextual features and overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Yang Liu , Huchuan Lu

Recently, the powerful generalization ability exhibited by foundation models has brought forth new solutions for zero-shot anomaly segmentation tasks. However, guiding these foundation models correctly to address downstream tasks remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanning Hou , Ke Xu , Junfa Li , Yanran Ruan , Jianfeng Qiu

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation(FSS)aim to adapt a pre-trained model to new classes with as few as a single labeled training sample per class. The existing prototypical work used in natural image scenarios biasedly focus on capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Song Tang , Chunxiao Zu , Wenxin Su , Yuan Dong , Mao Ye , Yan Gan , Xiatian Zhu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has set a new standard in interactive image segmentation, offering robust performance across various tasks. However, its significant computational requirements limit its deployment in real-time or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Kunal Dasharath Patil , Gowthamaan Palani , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

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

Vision foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM), pretrained on large-scale natural image datasets, often struggle in medical image segmentation due to a lack of domain-specific adaptation. In clinical practice, fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zelin Liu , Sicheng Dong , Bocheng Li , Yixuan Yang , Jiacheng Ruan , Chenxu Zhou , Suncheng Xiang

Prompt-free image segmentation aims to generate accurate masks without manual guidance. Typical pre-trained models, notably Segmentation Anything Model (SAM), generate prompts directly at a single granularity level. However, this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min , Yi Zhang

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

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

Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) signifies a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen , Rushi Jiao

We propose a method to efficiently equip the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the ability to generate regional captions. SAM presents strong generalizability to segment anything while is short for semantic understanding. By introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiaoke Huang , Jianfeng Wang , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Jiwen Lu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

Segmentation refinement aims to enhance the initial coarse masks generated by segmentation algorithms. The refined masks are expected to capture more details and better contours of the target objects. Research on segmentation refinement has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Seonghyeon Moon , Qingze , Liu , Haein Kong , Muhammad Haris Khan

We study few-shot semantic segmentation that aims to segment a target object from a query image when provided with a few annotated support images of the target class. Several recent methods resort to a feature masking (FM) technique to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seonghyeon Moon , Samuel S. Sohn , Honglu Zhou , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic , Muhammad Haris Khan , Mubbasir Kapadia

In recent years, few-shot segmentation (FSS) models have emerged as a promising approach in medical imaging analysis, offering remarkable adaptability to segment novel classes with limited annotated data. Existing approaches to few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mohammad Mozafari , Hosein Hasani , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohamadreza Fereydooni , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Medical image segmentation involves partitioning medical images into meaningful regions, with a focus on identifying anatomical structures and lesions. It has broad applications in healthcare, and deep learning methods have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Donghang Lyu , Ruochen Gao , Marius Staring

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