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MedSAM, a medical foundation model derived from the SAM architecture, has demonstrated notable success across diverse medical domains. However, its clinical application faces two major challenges: the dependency on labor-intensive manual…

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The accurate segmentation of medical images is a crucial step in obtaining reliable morphological statistics. However, training a deep neural network for this task requires a large amount of labeled data to ensure high-accuracy results. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Xianjun Han , Qianqian Chen , Zhaoyang Xie , Xuejun Li , Hongyu Yang

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

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Collective insights from a group of experts have always proven to outperform an individual's best diagnostic for clinical tasks. For the task of medical image segmentation, existing research on AI-based alternatives focuses more on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Aimon Rahman , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

The domain discrepancy existed between medical images acquired in different situations renders a major hurdle in deploying pre-trained medical image segmentation models for clinical use. Since it is less possible to distribute training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shishuai Hu , Zehui Liao , Yong Xia

Leveraging the powerful capabilities of diffusion models has yielded quite effective results in medical image segmentation tasks. However, existing methods typically transfer the original training process directly without specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qilin Huang , Tianyu Lin , Zhiguang Chen , Fudan Zheng

Automated medical image segmentation suffers from high inter-observer variability, particularly in tasks such as lung nodule delineation, where experts often disagree. Existing approaches either collapse this variability into a consensus…

Recent advances in denoising diffusion probabilistic models have shown great success in image synthesis tasks. While there are already works exploring the potential of this powerful tool in image semantic segmentation, its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Yiyu Shi

Open-vocabulary segmentation is the task of segmenting anything that can be named in an image. Recently, large-scale vision-language modelling has led to significant advances in open-vocabulary segmentation, but at the cost of gargantuan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

The ideal goal of image matching is to achieve stable and efficient performance in unseen domains. However, many existing learning-based optical-SAR image matching methods, despite their effectiveness in specific scenarios, exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Han Nie , Bin Luo , Jun Liu , Zhitao Fu , Huan Zhou , Shuo Zhang , Weixing Liu

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is one of the pioneering prompt-based foundation models for image segmentation and has been rapidly adopted for various medical imaging applications. However, in clinical settings, creating effective prompts is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Indrin Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

We introduce segmentation-free guidance, a novel method designed for text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion. Our method does not require retraining of the diffusion model. At no additional compute cost, it uses the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kambiz Azarian , Debasmit Das , Qiqi Hou , Fatih Porikli

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has recently gained popularity in the field of computer vision, thanks to its image generation applications, such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models, and Stable Diffusion, which have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin , Yanwu Xu

In recent times, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have proven effective for medical image generation and denoising, and as representation learners for downstream segmentation. However, segmentation performance is limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Venkata Siddharth Dhara , Pawan Kumar

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yijun Yang , Huazhu Fu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Lei Zhu

Diffusion Probabilistic Methods are employed for state-of-the-art image generation. In this work, we present a method for extending such models for performing image segmentation. The method learns end-to-end, without relying on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Tomer Amit , Tal Shaharbany , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mélanie Gaillochet , Mehrdad Noori , Sahar Dastani , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Text-conditioned image generation has made significant progress in recent years with generative adversarial networks and more recently, diffusion models. While diffusion models conditioned on text prompts have produced impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Azade Farshad , Yousef Yeganeh , Yu Chi , Chengzhi Shen , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab

Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced broad use of image segmentation. However, SAM and its variants necessitate substantial manual effort for prompt generation and additional…

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