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The goal of interactive image segmentation is to delineate specific regions within an image via visual or language prompts. Low-latency and high-quality interactive segmentation with diverse prompts remain challenging for existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qin Liu , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal , Marc Niethammer

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has exhibited outstanding performance in various image segmentation tasks. Despite being trained with over a billion masks, SAM faces challenges in mask prediction quality in numerous scenarios, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhaozhi Xie , Bochen Guan , Weihao Jiang , Muyang Yi , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Lei Zhang

Automated nodule segmentation is essential for computer-assisted diagnosis in ultrasound images. Nevertheless, most existing methods depend on precise pixel-level annotations by medical professionals, a process that is both costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xingyue Zhao , Peiqi Li , Xiangde Luo , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Zhongyu Li

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

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision. Existing methods are generally divided into two categories: automatic and interactive. Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

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

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has recently demonstrated exceptional performance in zero-shot prompt segmentation for natural images and videos. However, when the propagation mechanism of SAM2 is applied to medical images, it often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yunhao Bai , Boxiang Yun , Zeli Chen , Qinji Yu , Yingda Xia , Yan Wang

Using extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional generalization and zero-shot capabilities, attracting widespread attention in areas such as medical image segmentation and remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Quan Zhang , Yuxin Qi , Xi Tang , Jinwei Fang , Xi Lin , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

The remarkable capabilities of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for tackling image segmentation tasks in an intuitive and interactive manner has sparked interest in the design of effective visual prompts. Such interest has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jorge Quesada , Zoe Fowler , Mohammad Alotaibi , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

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

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

Prompt learning is a parameter-efficient approach for vision-language models, yet its robustness under label noise is less investigated. Visual content contains richer and more reliable semantic information, which remains more robust under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zibin Geng , Xuefeng Jiang , Jia Li , Zheng Li , Tian Wen , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong and versatile segmentation capabilities, along with intuitive prompt-based interactions. However, customizing SAM for medical image segmentation requires massive amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhonghao Yan , Zijin Yin , Tianyu Lin , Xiangzhu Zeng , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

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

Segmentation is central to clinical diagnosis and monitoring, yet the reliability of modern foundation models in medical imaging still depends on the availability of precise prompts. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) offers powerful…

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

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 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

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng