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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a groundbreaking foundation model for prompt-driven image segmentation tasks. However, both the original SAM and its medical variants require slice-by-slice manual prompting of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Shiyao Hu , Sijie Ren , Chen Jiang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Segment anything model (SAM) demonstrates strong generalization ability on natural image segmentation. However, its direct adaptation in medical image segmentation tasks shows significant performance drops. It also requires an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Heng Guo , Jianfeng Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Tony C. W. Mok , Dazhou Guo , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Dakai Jin , Minfeng Xu

Radiological images such as computed tomography (CT) and X-rays render anatomy with intrinsic structures. Being able to reliably locate the same anatomical structure across varying images is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ke Yan , Jinzheng Cai , Dakai Jin , Shun Miao , Dazhou Guo , Adam P. Harrison , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Le Lu

In recent years, convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) images have shown great success; however, two major challenges still exist. 1) Most current approaches inherently lack the ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kyle Lucke , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian

Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is highly effective in natural image segmentation, it requires dependencies on prompts, which limits its applicability to medical imaging where manual prompts are often unavailable. Existing efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengmeng Zhang , Xingyuan Dai , Yicheng Sun , Jing Wang , Yueyang Yao , Xiaoyan Gong , Fuze Cong , Feiyue Wang , Yisheng Lv

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in ultrasound (US) images, particularly small ones, is challenging due to noise and variability in imaging conditions (e.g., probe position, patient anatomy, tissue characteristics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Danielle L. Ferreira , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni , Gopal Avinash

Recent advancements in large foundation models have shown promising potential in the medical industry due to their flexible prompting capability. One such model, the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven segmentation model, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Qi Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Marawan Elbatel

Due to the scarcity of annotated data and the substantial computational costs of model, conventional tuning methods in medical image segmentation face critical challenges. Current approaches to adapting pretrained models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Chenlin Xu , Lei Zhang , Lituan Wang , Xinyu Pu , Pengfei Ma , Guangwu Qian , Zizhou Wang , Yan Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a significant advancement in segmentation models, offering robust zero-shot abilities and dynamic prompting. However, existing medical SAMs are not suitable for the multi-scale nature of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Paul J. van Diest , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Recent advancements in biomedical image analysis have been significantly driven by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). This transformative technology, originally developed for general-purpose computer vision, has found rapid application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ho Hin Lee , Yu Gu , Theodore Zhao , Yanbo Xu , Jianwei Yang , Naoto Usuyama , Cliff Wong , Mu Wei , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo , Alberto Santamaria-Pang , Hoifung Poon

Medical image segmentation models built on Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieve strong performance on clean benchmarks, yet their reliability often degrades under realistic image corruptions such as noise, blur, motion artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jieru Li , Matthew Chen , Micky C. Nnamdi , J. Ben Tamo , Benoit L. Marteau , May D. Wang

Automatic segmentation of anatomical landmarks from ultrasound (US) plays an important role in the management of preterm neonates with a very low birth weight due to the increased risk of developing intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Jeya Maria Jose V. , Rajeev Yasarla , Puyang Wang , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Purpose: Segmentation of the breast lesion in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is an essential step to accurately diagnose and plan treatment and monitor progress. This study aims to highlight the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Sam Narimani , Solveig Roth Hoff , Kathinka Dahli Kurz , Kjell-Inge Gjesdal , Jurgen Geisler , Endre Grovik

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Radiotherapy-induced normal tissue injury is a clinically important complication, and accurate segmentation of injury regions from medical images could facilitate disease assessment, treatment planning, and longitudinal monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Caiwen Jiang , Lei Zeng , Wei Liu

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images is essential for modern clinical diagnosis, disease research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Purpose: Automated ultrasound image analysis is challenging due to anatomical complexity and limited annotated data. To tackle this, we take a data-centric approach, assembling the largest public ultrasound segmentation dataset and training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Adrien Meyer , Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Recently, foundation models trained on massive datasets to adapt to a wide range of tasks have attracted considerable attention and are actively being explored within the computer vision community. Among these, the Segment Anything Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Jun-Seok Yun , Yuseok Bae