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Automatic breast lesion detection and classification is an important task in computer-aided diagnosis, in which breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging is a common and frequently used screening tool. Recently, a number of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Zong Fan , Ping Gong , Shanshan Tang , Christine U. Lee , Xiaohui Zhang , Pengfei Song , Shigao Chen , Hua Li

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

The emerging scale segmentation model, Segment Anything (SAM), exhibits impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation for natural images. However, when applied to medical images, SAM suffers from noticeable performance drop. To make SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Background: Precise breast ultrasound (BUS) segmentation supports reliable measurement, quantitative analysis, and downstream classification, yet remains difficult for small or low-contrast lesions with fuzzy margins and speckle noise. Text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Raja Mallina , Bryar Shareef

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Accurate segmentation of nodules in both 2D breast ultrasound (BUS) and 3D automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Therefore, developing an automated system for nodule segmentation can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhao Huang , Ao Chang , Haoran Dou , Xing Tao , Xinrui Zhou , Yan Cao , Ruobing Huang , Alejandro F Frangi , Lingyun Bao , Xin Yang , Dong Ni

With the rapid development of deep learning and computer vision technologies, medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the characteristics of breast ultrasound images, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiajun Ding , Beiyao Zhu , Wenjie Wang , Shurong Zhang , Dian Zhua , Zhao Liua

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Reliable classification of benign and malignant lesions in breast ultrasound images can provide an effective and relatively low cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis is however highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Elham Yousef Kalaf , Ata Jodeiri , Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan , Ng Wei Lin , Kartini Binti Rahman , Nur Aishah Taib , Sarinder Kaur Dhillon

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However, its application in medical imaging presents challenges, requiring either substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhiheng Cheng , Qingyue Wei , Hongru Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangqiong Qu , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou

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…

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This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

We have witnessed remarkable progress in foundation models in vision tasks. Currently, several recent works have utilized the segmenting anything model (SAM) to boost the segmentation performance in medical images, where most of them focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Haoran Wang , Lian Huai , Wenbin Li , Lei Qi , Xingqun Jiang , Yinghuan Shi

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

Histopathology nuclei segmentation is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and cancer diagnosis. Although existing segmentation methods have achieved strong performance, they are often computationally heavy and show limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Muhammad Hassan Maqsood , Yanming Zhu , Alfred Lam , Getamesay Dagnaw , Xuefei Yin , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

This paper presents FeTal-SAM, a novel adaptation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) tailored for fetal brain MRI segmentation. Traditional deep learning methods often require large annotated datasets for a fixed set of labels, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Qi Zeng , Weide Liu , Bo Li , Ryne Didier , P. Ellen Grant , Davood Karimi

Automated segmentation of ultrasound images can assist medical experts with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Although using the common modality of ultrasound, one typically needs separate datasets in order to segment, for example,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Dongik Shin , Beomsuk Kim , Seungjun Baek

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, and thus there is an urgent need for early and accurate diagnostic techniques. Although ultrasound imaging is a widely used technique for breast cancer screening, it faces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Pandiyaraju V , Shravan Venkatraman , Pavan Kumar S , Santhosh Malarvannan , Kannan A