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In medical image segmentation, heterogeneous privacy policies across institutions often make joint training on pooled datasets infeasible, motivating continual image segmentation-learning from data streams without catastrophic forgetting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiayi Wang , Wei Dai , Haoyu Wang , Sihan Yang , Haixia Bi , Jian Sun

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has attracted widespread attention for its superior interactive segmentation capabilities with visual prompts while lacking further exploration of text prompts. In this paper, we empirically investigate what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lianghui Zhu , Rui Hu , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Text-prompted foundation models for medical image segmentation offer an intuitive way to delineate anatomical structures from natural language queries, but their predictions often lack spatial precision and degrade under domain shift. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xuchen Li , Hengrui Gu , Mohan Zhang , Qin Liu , Zhen Tan , Xinyuan Zhu , Huixue Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Kaixiong Zhou

Motivated by the success of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in promptable segmentation, recent studies leverage SAM to develop training-free solutions for few-shot segmentation, which aims to predict object masks in the target image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Yun Xing , Wenbin An , Qingsong Zhao , Jiawei Shao , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu , Xuelong Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves remarkable promptable segmentation given high-quality prompts which, however, often require good skills to specify. To make SAM robust to casual prompts, this paper presents the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Qi Fan , Xin Tao , Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Segmentation of anatomical regions of interest such as vessels or small lesions in medical images is still a difficult problem that is often tackled with manual input by an expert. One of the major challenges for this task is that the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Tianyu Ma , Hang Zhang , Hanley Ong , Amar Vora , Thanh D. Nguyen , Ajay Gupta , Yi Wang , Mert Sabuncu

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However, it is often challenged by the imprecise boundaries of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jian Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Xianping Ma , Weikang Yu , Pedram Ghamisi

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

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

The advent of Large Vision Models (LVMs) offers new opportunities for few-shot medical image segmentation. However, existing training-free methods based on LVMs fail to effectively utilize negative prompts, leading to poor performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yufei Liu , Haoke Xiao , Jiaxing Chai , Yongcun Zhang , Rong Wang , Zijie Meng , Zhiming Luo

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

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation models often suffer from domain shift, where the models trained on a source domain do not generalize well to other unseen domains. As a prompt-driven foundation model with powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Yifan Gao , Wei Xia , Dingdu Hu , Wenkui Wang , Xin Gao

The existing barely-supervised medical image segmentation (BSS) methods, adopting a registration-segmentation paradigm, aim to learn from data with very few annotations to mitigate the extreme label scarcity problem. However, this paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junming Su , Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in medical imaging analysis, medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled images for supervision. Further, the significant domain gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hedda Cohen Indelman , Elay Dahan , Angeles M. Perez-Agosto , Carmit Shiran , Doron Shaked , Nati Daniel

Recently, promptable segmentation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have demonstrated robust zero-shot generalization capabilities on static images. These promptable models exhibit denoising abilities for imprecise prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tao Zhou , Wenhan Luo , Qi Ye , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation (FSMIS) aims to segment novel object classes in medical images using only minimal annotated examples, addressing the critical challenges of data scarcity and domain shifts prevalent in medical imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Meihua Li , Yang Zhang , Weizhao He , Hu Qu , Yisong Li

Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to segment the novel class images with a few annotated samples. In this paper, we propose a dense affinity matching (DAM) framework to exploit the support-query interaction by densely capturing both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hao Chen , Yonghan Dong , Zheming Lu , Yunlong Yu , Yingming Li , Jungong Han , Zhongfei Zhang

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

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang