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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

Latent Diffusion Models have shown remarkable results in text-guided image synthesis in recent years. In the domain of natural (RGB) images, recent works have shown that such models can be adapted to various vision-language downstream tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Konstantinos Vilouras , Ilias Stogiannidis , Junyu Yan , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

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

Text-to-image generative models often struggle with long prompts detailing complex scenes, diverse objects with distinct visual characteristics and spatial relationships. In this work, we propose SCoPE (Scheduled interpolation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ketan Suhaas Saichandran , Xavier Thomas , Prakhar Kaushik , Deepti Ghadiyaram

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Maximilian Rokuss , Yannick Kirchhoff , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

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

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

Accurate tooth identification and segmentation in Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) dental images can significantly enhance the efficiency and precision of manual diagnoses performed by dentists. However, existing segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pengyu Dai , Yafei Ou , Yuqiao Yang , Yang Liu , Yue Zhao

Segmentation of biomedical images is essential for studying and characterizing anatomical structures, detection and evaluation of pathological tissues. Segmentation has been further shown to enhance the reconstruction performance in many…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Subhamoy Mandal , Xosé Luís Deán-Ben , Daniel Razansky

As natural image understanding moves towards the pretrain-finetune era, research in pathology imaging is concurrently evolving. Despite the predominant focus on pretraining pathological foundation models, how to adapt foundation models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiaxuan Lu , Fang Yan , Xiaofan Zhang , Yue Gao , Shaoting Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits promise in generic object segmentation and offers potential for various applications. Existing methods have applied SAM to surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) by tuning SAM-based frameworks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Qiuxia Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Automated medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable progress with fully labeled data. However, site-specific clinical priorities and the high cost of manual annotation often yield scans with only a subset of organs labeled, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qiaochu Zhao , Wei Wei , David Horowitz , Richard Bakst , Yading Yuan

We propose DrBoost, a dense retrieval ensemble inspired by boosting. DrBoost is trained in stages: each component model is learned sequentially and specialized by focusing only on retrieval mistakes made by the current ensemble. The final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Patrick Lewis , Barlas Oğuz , Wenhan Xiong , Fabio Petroni , Wen-tau Yih , Sebastian Riedel

Universal medical image segmentation seeks to use a single foundational model to handle diverse tasks across multiple imaging modalities. However, existing approaches often rely heavily on manual visual prompts or retrieved reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haoyun Chen , Fenghe Tang , Wenxin Ma , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Medical tabular data, abundant in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), is a valuable resource for diverse medical tasks such as risk prediction. While deep learning approaches, particularly transformer-based models, have shown remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Daniel J. Tan , Hairil Rizal Abdullah , Mengling Feng

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

The recent introduction of prompt tuning based on pre-trained vision-language models has dramatically improved the performance of multi-label image classification. However, some existing strategies that have been explored still have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiangyu Wu , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yang Yang , Yi-Feng Wu , Qing-Guo Chen , Jianfeng Lu

End-to-end medical image segmentation is of great value for computer-aided diagnosis dominated by task-specific models, usually suffering from poor generalization. With recent breakthroughs brought by the segment anything model (SAM) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Li Yu , Zengqiang Yan

Purpose: Accurate segmentation of prostate cancer on magnetic resonance (MR) images is crucial for planning image-guided interventions such as targeted biopsies, cryoablation, and radiotherapy. However, subtle and variable tumour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Junqing Yang , Natasha Thorley , Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi , Shonit Punwani , Zion Tse , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed