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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has drawn significant attention from researchers who work on medical image segmentation because of its generalizability. However, researchers have found that SAM may have limited performance on medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Andres Diaz-Pinto , Haowei Li , Alejandro Martin-Gomez , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

Recent advances in segmentation foundation models have enabled accurate and efficient segmentation across a wide range of natural images and videos, but their utility to medical data remains unclear. In this work, we first present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Feifei Li , Mohammed Baharoon , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

The success of large language models has inspired the computer vision community to explore image segmentation foundation model that is able to zero/few-shot generalize through prompt engineering. Segment-Anything(SAM), among others, is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haojie Zhang , Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

The emergence of large models, also known as foundation models, has brought significant advancements to AI research. One such model is Segment Anything (SAM), which is designed for image segmentation tasks. However, as with other foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Runlong Cao , Yan Wang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

Medical imaging is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, with medical image segmentation as a subtask receiving high attention. However, automatic medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific and struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ruochen Gao , Donghang Lyu , Marius Staring

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excel in zero-shot segmentation for natural images but struggle with medical image segmentation due to differences in texture, contrast, and noise. Annotating medical images is costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Keerthi Sravan Ravi , Gopal Avinash , Ravi Soni

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization capabilities, can be applied to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, developing foundation models for medical image segmentation poses a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sihan Yang , Jiadong Feng , Xuande Mi , Haixia Bi , Hai Zhang , Jian Sun

Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Andrea Moglia , Matteo Leccardi , Matteo Cavicchioli , Alice Maccarini , Marco Marcon , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

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

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Topojoy Biswas , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

The recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image segmentation, especially for small, irregularly-shaped, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yaxi Chen , Aleksandra Ivanova , Shaheer U. Saeed , Rikin Hargunani , Jie Huang , Chaozong Liu , Yipeng Hu

Recently, large vision model, Segment Anything Model (SAM), has revolutionized the computer vision field, especially for image segmentation. SAM presented a new promptable segmentation paradigm that exhibit its remarkable zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chenglong Wang , Dexuan Li , Sucheng Wang , Chengxiu Zhang , Yida Wang , Yun Liu , Guang Yang

Medical image segmentation has been traditionally approached by training or fine-tuning the entire model to cater to any new modality or dataset. However, this approach often requires tuning a large number of parameters during training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundational model for image segmentation tasks, known for its strong generalization across diverse applications. However, its impressive performance comes with significant computational and resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xiaorui Sun , Jun Liu , Heng Tao Shen , Xiaofeng Zhu , Ping Hu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), originally built on a 2D Vision Transformer (ViT), excels at capturing global patterns in 2D natural images but struggles with 3D medical imaging modalities like CT and MRI. These modalities require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiang Gao , Kai Lu

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as the leading approach for zero-shot learning in segmentation tasks, offering the advantage of avoiding pixel-wise annotations. It is particularly appealing in medical image segmentation, where the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Ziyi Huang , Hongshan Liu , Haofeng Zhang , Xueshen Li , Haozhe Liu , Fuyong Xing , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) shows exceptional performance in generating high-quality object masks and achieving zero-shot image segmentation. However, as a versatile vision model, SAM is primarily trained with large-scale natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianyu Yan , Zifu Wan , Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Yang Liu , Huchuan Lu

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently achieved amazing results in the field of natural image segmentation. However, it is not effective for medical image segmentation, owing to the large domain gap between natural and medical images. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Zhengzheng Tu , Le Gu , Xixi Wang , Bo Jiang

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capability and flexible geometric prompting in general image segmentation. However, SAM often struggles when handling various unconventional images, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Yun Xing , Ruijie Ren , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu