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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

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video processing. Although there have been efforts to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced to the computer vision community by Meta in April 2023, is a groundbreaking tool that allows automated segmentation of objects in images based on prompts such as text, clicks, or bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Athulya Sundaresan Geetha , Muhammad Hussain

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced promptable image segmentation in computer vision. However, extending these capabilities to videos presents substantial challenges, particularly in ensuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haiyang Mei , Pengyu Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

The recent Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in interactive object segmentation for both images and videos. However, as a foundational model on interactive segmentation, SAM2 performs segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Qiushi Yang , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Medical image and video segmentation is a critical task for precision medicine, which has witnessed considerable progress in developing task or modality-specific and generalist models for 2D images. However, there have been limited studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Jun Ma , Zongxin Yang , Sumin Kim , Bihui Chen , Mohammed Baharoon , Adibvafa Fallahpour , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

Background: We evaluate SAM 2 for surgical scene understanding by examining its semantic segmentation capabilities for organs/tissues both in zero-shot scenarios and after fine-tuning. Methods: We utilized five public datasets to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Devanish N. Kamtam , Joseph B. Shrager , Satya Deepya Malla , Xiaohan Wang , Nicole Lin , Juan J. Cardona , Serena Yeung-Levy , Clarence Hu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced by Meta AI Research as a generic object segmentation model, quickly garnered widespread attention and significantly influenced the academic community. To extend its application to video, Meta…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Manual annotation of volumetric medical images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Recent advancements in foundation models for video object segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yuwen Chen , Zafer Yildiz , Qihang Li , Yaqian Chen , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Nicholas Konz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks and has become the state-of-the-art for visual object tracking. The model stores information from previous frames in a memory bank, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alen Adamyan , Tomáš Čížek , Matej Straka , Klara Janouskova , Martin Schmid

The precise tracking and segmentation of surgical instruments have led to a remarkable enhancement in the efficiency of surgical procedures. However, the challenge lies in achieving accurate segmentation of surgical instruments while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , Long Bai , Guankun Wang , An Wang , Xiaoxiao Yang , Huxin Gao , Hongliang Ren

Intelligent medical image segmentation methods are rapidly evolving and being increasingly applied, yet they face the challenge of domain transfer, where algorithm performance degrades due to different data distributions between source and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Andrew Seohwan Yu , Mohsen Hariri , Xuecen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Vipin Chaudhary , Xiaojuan Li

The recent Segment Anything Models (SAMs) have emerged as foundational visual models for general interactive segmentation. Despite demonstrating robust generalization abilities, they still suffer performance degradations in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention because of its ability to segment various objects in images given a prompt. The recently developed SAM 2 has extended this ability to video inputs. This opens an opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Yaqian Chen , Jichen Yang , Yuwen Chen , Maciej A. Mazurowski

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

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) serves as a core foundation model in the field of video segmentation. Building upon the original SAM model, it introduces a memory bank mechanism and demonstrates outstanding performance in tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyuan Ding , Yijing Yang , Han Shu , Xinghao Chen

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks but faces challenges in visual object tracking, particularly when managing crowded scenes with fast-moving or self-occluding objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cheng-Yen Yang , Hsiang-Wei Huang , Wenhao Chai , Zhongyu Jiang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a powerful tool for video object segmentation and tracking anything. Key components of SAM 2 that drive the impressive video object segmentation performance include a large multistage image…

Foundation models for image segmentation have shown strong generalization in natural images, yet their applicability to 3D medical imaging remains limited. In this work, we study the zero-shot use of Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Miquel Lopez Escoriza , Pau Amargant Alvarez

Research has focused on Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation (MMSS), where pixel-wise predictions are derived from multiple visual modalities captured by diverse sensors. Recently, the large vision model, Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chenfei Liao , Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Haiwei Xue , Yihong Cao , Jiawen Wang , Kailun Yang , Xuming Hu