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Accurate segmentation of organs and tumors in CT and MRI scans is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. While deep learning has advanced automated segmentation, most models remain task-specific, lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yuheng Li , Yizhou Wu , Yuxiang Lai , Mingzhe Hu , Xiaofeng Yang

There is substantial interest in developing artificial intelligence systems to support radiologists across tasks ranging from segmentation to report generation. Existing computed tomography (CT) foundation models have largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rubén Moreno-Aguado , Alba Magallón , Victor Moreno , Yingying Fang , Guang Yang

The goal of this work is to segment and name regions of images without access to pixel-level labels during training. To tackle this task, we construct segmenters by distilling the complementary strengths of two foundation models. The first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

The use of artificial intelligence to enable precision medicine and decision support systems through the analysis of pathology images has the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Such applications will depend on…

Foundation models refer to artificial intelligence (AI) models that are trained on massive amounts of data and demonstrate broad generalizability across various tasks with high accuracy. These models offer versatile, one-for-many or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Rina Bao , Erfan Darzi , Sheng He , Chuan-Heng Hsiao , Mohammad Arafat Hussain , Jingpeng Li , Atle Bjornerud , Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have been recently proposed for universal use in segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Jingwei Zhang , Ke Ma , Saarthak Kapse , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Prateek Prasanna , Dimitris Samaras

Pathology image segmentation is crucial in computational pathology for analyzing histological features relevant to cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, current methods face major challenges in clinical applications due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Liqi Lin , Yihui Wang , Yequan Bie , Xi Wang , Yanning Zhou , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Hao Chen

In computational pathology, several foundation models have recently emerged and demonstrated enhanced learning capability for analyzing pathology images. However, adapting these models to various downstream tasks remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jeaung Lee , Jeewoo Lim , Keunho Byeon , Jin Tae Kwak

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

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

Recent rapid progress in the field of computational pathology has been enabled by foundation models. These models are beginning to move beyond encoding image patches towards whole-slide understanding but their clinical utility remains…

This paper studies co-segmenting the common semantic object in a set of images. Existing works either rely on carefully engineered networks to mine the implicit semantic information in visual features or require extra data (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Duan , Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Xiabi Liu

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer with rapid progression and high metastatic potential. Accurate characterisation of tissue morphology in melanoma is crucial for prognosis and treatment planning. However, manual segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Jiaqi Lv , Yijie Zhu , Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio , Brinder Singh Chohan , Mark Eastwood , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Foundation models have transformed medical image analysis by providing robust feature representations that reduce the need for large-scale task-specific training. However, current benchmarks in dermatology often reduce the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Furkan Yuceyalcin , Abdurrahim Yilmaz , Burak Temelkuran

Pathological image segmentation faces numerous challenges, particularly due to ambiguous semantic boundaries and the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Although recent semi-supervised methods based on consistency regularization (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mingxi Fu , Fanglei Fu , Xitong Ling , Huaitian Yuan , Tian Guan , Yonghong He , Lianghui Zhu

Image segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, studied continuously over several decades, as evidenced by seminal algorithms such as N-Cut, FCN, and MaskFormer. With the advent of foundation models (FMs), contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianfei Zhou , Wang Xia , Fei Zhang , Boyu Chang , Wenguan Wang , Ye Yuan , Ender Konukoglu , Daniel Cremers

Nucleus segmentation is an important analysis task in digital pathology. However, methods for automatic segmentation often struggle with new data from a different distribution, requiring users to manually annotate nuclei and retrain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Titus Griebel , Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Purpose: Recent developments in computational pathology have been driven by advances in Vision Foundation Models, particularly the Segment Anything Model (SAM). This model facilitates nuclei segmentation through two primary methods:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xueyuan Li , Can Cui , Ruining Deng , Yucheng Tang , Quan Liu , Tianyuan Yao , Shunxing Bao , Naweed Chowdhury , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Vision-language foundation models have shown great promise in computational pathology but remain primarily data-driven, lacking explicit integration of medical knowledge. We introduce KEEP (KnowledgE-Enhanced Pathology), a foundation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Xiao Zhou , Luoyi Sun , Dexuan He , Wenbin Guan , Ge Wang , Ruifen Wang , Lifeng Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Sun , Ya Zhang , Kun Sun , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie