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Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

In-context learning (ICL) with Large Vision Models (LVMs) presents a promising avenue in medical image segmentation by reducing the reliance on extensive labeling. However, the ICL performance of LVMs highly depends on the choices of visual…

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Foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) enable flexible text-guided medical image segmentation, yet their predictions remain highly sensitive to prompt formulation. Even semantically equivalent descriptions can yield…

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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment and recognize objects universally. Trained on extensive high-quality segmentation data, the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable universal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Lin Chen , Yingjian Zhu , Qi Yang , Xin Niu , Kun Ding , Shiming Xiang

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

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Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

State-of-the-art models in semantic segmentation primarily operate on single, static images, generating corresponding segmentation masks. This one-shot approach leaves little room for error correction, as the models lack the capability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , Suzanne Furby , Peter Caccetta , Xiaoliang Wu , Rodrigo Ibata , Ondrej Hlinka , John Taylor

The limited availability of labeled data has driven advancements in semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation. Modern large-scale models tailored for general segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Kaiwen Huang , Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Chen Gong , Dong Liang

To address prevalent issues in medical imaging, such as data acquisition challenges and label availability, transfer learning from natural to medical image domains serves as a viable strategy to produce reliable segmentation results.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with prompt-driven methods gaining prominence due to their flexibility. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at point-prompted segmentation, while text-based models, often leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suzhe Xu , Jialin Peng , Chengyuan Zhang

With the proposal of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), fine-tuning SAM for medical image segmentation (MIS) has become popular. However, due to the large size of the SAM model and the significant domain gap between natural and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jinfeng Wang , Sifan Song , Xinkun Wang , Yiyi Wang , Yiyi Miao , Jionglong Su , S. Kevin Zhou

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

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Manual labeling of gestures in robot-assisted surgery is labor intensive, prone to errors, and requires expertise or training. We propose a method for automated and explainable generation of gesture transcripts that leverages the abundance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kay Hutchinson , Zongyu Li , Ian Reyes , Homa Alemzadeh

Purpose: Endoscopic surgical environments present challenges for dissection zone segmentation due to unclear boundaries between tissue types, leading to segmentation errors where models misidentify or overlook edges. This study aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Mengya Xu , Wenjin Mo , Guankun Wang , Huxin Gao , An Wang , Zhen Li , Xiaoxiao Yang , Hongliang Ren

Whole-body PET/CT is a cornerstone of oncological imaging, yet accurate lesion segmentation remains challenging due to tracer heterogeneity, physiological uptake, and multi-center variability. While fully automated methods have advanced…

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Accurate segmentation of lesions plays a critical role in medical image analysis and diagnosis. Traditional segmentation approaches that rely solely on visual features often struggle with the inherent uncertainty in lesion distribution and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Dandan Shan , Zihan Li , Yunxiang Li , Qingde Li , Jie Tian , Qingqi Hong

Medical image analysis is critical yet challenged by the need of jointly segmenting organs or tissues, and numerous instances for anatomical structures and tumor microenvironment analysis. Existing studies typically formulated different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qing Xu , Yuxiang Luo , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Text-prompted foundation models for medical image segmentation offer an intuitive way to delineate anatomical structures from natural language queries, but their predictions often lack spatial precision and degrade under domain shift. In…

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