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Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images is essential for modern clinical diagnosis, disease research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

The deployment of foundation models for medical imaging has demonstrated considerable success. However, their training overheads associated with downstream tasks remain substantial due to the size of the image encoders employed, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Chengxi Zeng , Yuxuan Jiang , Fan Zhang , Alberto Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

Tongue imaging serves as a valuable diagnostic tool, particularly in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The quality of tongue surface segmentation significantly affects the accuracy of tongue image classification and subsequent diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Jiacheng Xie , Ziyang Zhang , Biplab Poudel , Congyu Guo , Yang Yu , Guanghui An , Xiaoting Tang , Lening Zhao , Chunhui Xu , Dong Xu

We propose TG-LMM (Text-Guided Large Multi-Modal Model), a novel approach that leverages textual descriptions of organs to enhance segmentation accuracy in medical images. Existing medical image segmentation methods face several challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yihao Zhao , Enhao Zhong , Cuiyun Yuan , Yang Li , Man Zhao , Chunxia Li , Jun Hu , Chenbin Liu

Annotation of medical images, such as MRI and CT scans, is crucial for evaluating treatment efficacy and planning radiotherapy. However, the extensive workload of medical professionals limits their ability to annotate large image datasets,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Eichi Takaya , Shinnosuke Yamamoto

Medical image analysis is critical yet challenged by the need of jointly segmenting organs or tissues, and numerous instances for anatomical structures and tumor microenvironment analysis. Existing studies typically formulated different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qing Xu , Yuxiang Luo , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Medical image segmentation is fundamental for biomedical discovery. Existing methods lack generalizability and demand extensive, time-consuming manual annotation for new clinical application. Here, we propose MedSAM-3, a text promptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Anglin Liu , Rundong Xue , Xu R. Cao , Yifan Shen , Yi Lu , Xiang Li , Qianqian Chen , Jintai Chen

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

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in assisting healthcare professionals with accurate diagnoses and enabling automated diagnostic processes. Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often struggle with capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Phuong-Nam Tran , Nhat Truong Pham , Duc Ngoc Minh Dang , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in numerous medical engineering applications. Recently, language-guided segmentation has shown promise in medical scenarios where textual clinical reports are readily available as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mingjian Li , Mingyuan Meng , Shuchang Ye , Michael Fulham , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and time-consuming task. Even worse, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ke Yan , Qing Cai , Fan Zhang , Ziyan Cao , Zhi Liu

Most publicly available medical segmentation datasets are only partially labeled, with annotations provided for a subset of anatomical structures. When multiple datasets are combined for training, this incomplete annotation poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiong Wu , Yang Xing , Boxiao Yu , Wei Shao , Kuang Gong

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

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated significant potential in 3D medical image segmentation tasks. However, their high computational cost and inability to fully capture global 3D contextual information limit their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Kangbo Ma

Text guided 3D medical image segmentation offers a flexible alternative to class based and spatial prompt based models by allowing users to specify regions of interest directly in natural language. This paradigm avoids reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yu Xin , Gorkem Can Ates , Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Ying Zhang , Kaleb E Smith , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

Obtaining large-scale medical data, annotated or unannotated, is challenging due to stringent privacy regulations and data protection policies. In addition, annotating medical images requires that domain experts manually delineate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian