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The Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a foundation model for addressing image segmentation. Owing to the intrinsic complexity of medical images and the high annotation cost, the medical image segmentation (MIS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Ya Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

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

Although new vision foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have significantly enhanced zero-shot image segmentation capabilities, reliance on human-provided prompts poses significant challenges in adapting SAM2 to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Yuheng Bu , Kuang Gong

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has established itself as a powerful zero-shot image segmentation model, enabled by efficient point-centric annotation and prompt-based models. While click and brush interactions are both well explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Frano Rajič , Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that introduced revolutionary advancements in natural image segmentation. However, its performance remains sub-optimal when delineating the intricate structure of biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Xiangru Li , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

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

Polyp segmentation is vital for early colorectal cancer detection, yet traditional fully supervised methods struggle with morphological variability and domain shifts, requiring frequent retraining. Additionally, reliance on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xinyu Mao , Xiaohan Xing , Fei Meng , Jianbang Liu , Fan Bai , Qiang Nie , Max Meng

Recently, foundation models trained on massive datasets to adapt to a wide range of tasks have attracted considerable attention and are actively being explored within the computer vision community. Among these, the Segment Anything Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Jun-Seok Yun , Yuseok Bae

This paper introduces SAMAug, a novel visual point augmentation method for the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that enhances interactive image segmentation performance. SAMAug generates augmented point prompts to provide more information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haixing Dai , Chong Ma , Zhiling Yan , Zhengliang Liu , Enze Shi , Yiwei Li , Peng Shu , Xiaozheng Wei , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Fang Zeng , Dajiang Zhu , Wei Liu , Quanzheng Li , Lichao Sun , Shu Zhang Tianming Liu , Xiang Li

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

Efficient and accurate extraction of microstructures in micrographs of materials is essential in process optimization and the exploration of structure-property relationships. Deep learning-based image segmentation techniques that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Changtai Li , Xu Han , Chao Yao , Xiaojuan Ban

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can achieve satisfactory segmentation performance under high-quality box prompts. However, SAM's robustness is compromised by the decline in box quality, limiting its practicality in clinical reality. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Han Zhou , Yan Cao , Haoran Dou , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

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 ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

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