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In medical imaging, precise annotation of lesions or organs is often required. However, 3D volumetric images typically consist of hundreds or thousands of slices, making the annotation process extremely time-consuming and laborious.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bingzhi Shen , Lufan Chang , Siqi Chen , Shuxiang Guo , Hao Liu

Objectives: To evaluate the zero-shot performance of Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) in 3D segmentation of abdominal organs in CT scans, and to investigate the effects of prompt settings on segmentation results. Materials and Methods: In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yosuke Yamagishi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Tomohiro Kikuchi , Takahiro Nakao , Yuta Nakamura , Yukihiro Nomura , Soichiro Miki , Takeharu Yoshikawa , Osamu Abe

Image segmentation plays a vital role in the medical field by isolating organs or regions of interest from surrounding areas. Traditionally, segmentation models are trained on a specific organ or a disease, limiting their ability to handle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Abduz Zami , Shadman Sobhan , Rounaq Hossain , Md. Sawran Sorker , Mohiuddin Ahmed , Md. Redwan Hossain

Accurate segmentation of 3D medical images is critical for clinical applications like disease assessment and treatment planning. While the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable success in video object segmentation by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Yeqing Yang , Le Xu , Lixia Tian

In this paper, we propose a novel text promptable surgical instrument segmentation approach to overcome challenges associated with diversity and differentiation of surgical instruments in minimally invasive surgeries. We redefine the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zijian Zhou , Oluwatosin Alabi , Meng Wei , Tom Vercauteren , Miaojing Shi

Automated nodule segmentation is essential for computer-assisted diagnosis in ultrasound images. Nevertheless, most existing methods depend on precise pixel-level annotations by medical professionals, a process that is both costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xingyue Zhao , Peiqi Li , Xiangde Luo , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Zhongyu Li

The semantic segmentation task in pathology plays an indispensable role in assisting physicians in determining the condition of tissue lesions. With the proposal of Segment Anything Model (SAM), more and more foundation models have seen…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Mingya Zhang , Liang Wang , Zhihao Chen , Yiyuan Ge , Xianping Tao

The recent emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) enables various domain-specific segmentation tasks to be tackled cost-effectively by using bounding boxes as prompts. However, in scene text segmentation, SAM can not achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Enze Xie , Jiaho Lyu , Daiqing Wu , Huawen Shen , Yu Zhou

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong generalizability in various instance segmentation tasks. However, its performance is severely dependent on the quality of manual prompts. In addition, the RGB images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yihan Shang , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Xinghui Dong

Accurate segmentation for medical images is important for clinical diagnosis. Existing automatic segmentation methods are mainly based on fully supervised learning and have an extremely high demand for precise annotations, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuanpeng Liu , Qinglei Hui , Zhiyi Peng , Shaolin Gong , Dexing Kong

Recent advances in medical image segmentation have been driven by deep learning; however, most existing methods remain limited by modality-specific designs and exhibit poor adaptability to dynamic medical imaging scenarios. The Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guoping Xu , Christopher Kabat , You Zhang

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

Automated segmentation can assist radiotherapy treatment planning by saving manual contouring efforts and reducing intra-observer and inter-observer variations. The recent development of deep learning approaches has revoluted medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Hiram Gay , Baozhou Sun , Weixiong Zhang

The Segmentation Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has proven to be a powerful foundation model for promptable visual object segmentation in both images and videos, capable of storing object-aware memories and transferring them temporally through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Syed Hesham Syed Ariff , Yun Liu , Guolei Sun , Jing Yang , Henghui Ding , Xue Geng , Xudong Jiang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized image segmentation through its innovative prompt-based approach, yet the critical role of prompt engineering in its success remains underexplored. This paper presents the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yidong Jiang

Accurate myocardium segmentation across all phases in one cardiac cycle in cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scans is crucial for comprehensively cardiac function analysis. Despite advancements in deep learning (DL) for automatic cine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Zhennong Chen , Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has made great progress in anomaly segmentation tasks due to its impressive generalization ability. However, existing methods that directly apply SAM through prompting often overlook the domain shift issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hui-Yue Yang , Hui Chen , Ao Wang , Kai Chen , Zijia Lin , Yongliang Tang , Pengcheng Gao , Yuming Quan , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

3D teeth segmentation, involving the localization of tooth instances and their semantic categorization in 3D dental models, is a critical yet challenging task in digital dentistry due to the complexity of real-world dentition. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiguo Lu , Jianwen Lou , Mingjun Ma , Hairong Jin , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

Recent "segment anything" efforts show promise by learning from large-scale data, but adapting such models directly to medical images remains challenging due to the complexity of medical data, noisy annotations, and continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhiling Yan , Sifan Song , Dingjie Song , Yiwei Li , Rong Zhou , Weixiang Sun , Zhennong Chen , Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Fire segmentation remains a critical challenge in computer vision due to flames' irregular boundaries, translucent edges, and highly variable intensities. While the Segment Anything Models (SAM and SAM2) have demonstrated impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Emmanuel U. Ugwu , Zhang Xinming