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The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

Accurate segmentation of polyps and skin lesions is essential for diagnosing colorectal and skin cancers. While various segmentation methods for polyps and skin lesions using fully supervised deep learning techniques have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Encheng Su , Hu Cao , Alois Knoll

The high cost of obtaining accurate annotations for image segmentation and localization makes the use of one and few shot algorithms attractive. Several state-of-the-art methods for few-shot segmentation have emerged, including text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Gurunath Reddy , Dattesh Shanbhag , Deepa Anand

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), a prompt-driven foundation model extending SAM to both image and video domains, has shown superior zero-shot performance compared to its predecessor. Building on SAM's success in medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Melanoma segmentation in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is useful for prognosis and the measurement of crucial prognostic factors such as Breslow depth and primary invasive tumor size. In this paper, we present a novel approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Qingyuan Liu , Avideh Zakhor

Purpose: Accurate tool segmentation is essential in computer-aided procedures. However, this task conveys challenges due to artifacts' presence and the limited training data in medical scenarios. Methods that generalize to unseen data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Kanyifeechukwu J. Oguine , Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul , Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has recently demonstrated exceptional performance in zero-shot prompt segmentation for natural images and videos. However, when the propagation mechanism of SAM2 is applied to medical images, it often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yunhao Bai , Boxiang Yun , Zeli Chen , Qinji Yu , Yingda Xia , Yan Wang

Medical image segmentation is challenging due to overlapping anatomies with ambiguous boundaries and a severe imbalance between the foreground and background classes, which particularly affects the delineation of small lesions. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hao Shao , Qibin Hou

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown strong performance in various vision tasks, particularly image segmentation, due to their impressive zero-shot segmentation capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Pengfei Gu , Haoteng Tang , Islam A. Ebeid , Jose A. Nunez , Fabian Vazquez , Diego Adame , Marcus Zhan , Huimin Li , Bin Fu , Danny Z. Chen

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a notable milestone in segmentation models, highlighted by its robust zero-shot capabilities and ability to handle diverse prompts. SAM follows a pipeline that separates interactive segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 You Huang , Zongyu Lan , Liujuan Cao , Xianming Lin , Shengchuan Zhang , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

Recent advances in object-centric representation learning have shown that slot attention-based methods can effectively decompose visual scenes into object slot representations without supervision. However, existing approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Huankun Sheng , Ming Li , Yixiang Wei , Yeying Fan , Yu-Hui Wen , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

The goal of interactive image segmentation is to delineate specific regions within an image via visual or language prompts. Low-latency and high-quality interactive segmentation with diverse prompts remain challenging for existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qin Liu , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal , Marc Niethammer

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Distinguishing nucleus instances from the estimated maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Kai Yao , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Jingxiong Li , Honglin Li , Yuxuan Sun , Ruizhe Guo , Lin Yang

Foundation models have shown strong performance in multi-object segmentation with visual prompts, yet histopathology images remain challenging due to high cellular density, heterogeneity, and the gap between pixel-level supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yonghuang Wu , Wenwen Zeng , Xuan Xie , Chengqian Zhao , Guoqing Wu , Jinhua Yu

This work introduces a new framework, ProtoSAM, for one-shot medical image segmentation. It combines the use of prototypical networks, known for few-shot segmentation, with SAM - a natural image foundation model. The method proposed creates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lev Ayzenberg , Raja Giryes , Hayit Greenspan

In recent years, various large foundation models have been proposed for image segmentation. There models are often trained on large amounts of data corresponding to general computer vision tasks. Hence, these models do not perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM, a prompt driven segmentation model, excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, while CLIP is renowned for its zero shot recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sidra Aleem , Fangyijie Wang , Mayug Maniparambil , Eric Arazo , Julia Dietlmeier , Guenole Silvestre , Kathleen Curran , Noel E. O'Connor , Suzanne Little

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a state-of-the-art research advancement in natural image segmentation, achieving impressive results with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. However, our evaluation and recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Junlong Cheng , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Jianpin Chen , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Jilong Chen , Lei Jiang , Hui Sun , Junjun He , Shaoting Zhang , Min Zhu , Yu Qiao

The unprecedented developments in segmentation foundational models have become a dominant force in the field of computer vision, introducing a multitude of previously unexplored capabilities in a wide range of natural images and videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen