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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that has revolutionised image segmentation. To apply SAM to surgical instrument segmentation, a common approach is to locate precise points or boxes of instruments and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

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

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

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

Segmentation is vital for ophthalmology image analysis. But its various modal images hinder most of the existing segmentation algorithms applications, as they rely on training based on a large number of labels or hold weak generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhongxi Qiu , Yan Hu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Radiotherapy-induced normal tissue injury is a clinically important complication, and accurate segmentation of injury regions from medical images could facilitate disease assessment, treatment planning, and longitudinal monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Caiwen Jiang , Lei Zeng , Wei Liu

Parotid gland lesion segmentation is essential for the treatment of parotid gland diseases. However, due to the variable size and complex lesion boundaries, accurate parotid gland lesion segmentation remains challenging. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhongyuan Wu , Chuan-Xian Ren , Yu Wang , Xiaohua Ban , Jianning Xiao , Xiaohui Duan

Verbal-prompted segmentation is inherently limited by the expressiveness of natural language and struggles with uncommon, instance-specific, or difficult-to-describe objects: scenarios frequently encountered in manufacturing and 3D printing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhenran Tang , Rohan Nagabhirava , Changliu Liu

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 advancements in large foundation models have shown promising potential in the medical industry due to their flexible prompting capability. One such model, the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven segmentation model, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Qi Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Marawan Elbatel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) signifies a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen , Rushi Jiao

Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Existing volumetric medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific, excelling at specific target but struggling to generalize across anatomical structures or modalities. This limitation restricts their broader clinical use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haoyu Wang , Sizheng Guo , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Junlong Cheng , Tianbin Li , Jianpin Chen , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Yiqing Shen , Bin Fu , Shaoting Zhang , Junjun He , Yu Qiao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can achieve satisfactory segmentation performance under high-quality box prompts. However, SAM's robustness is compromised by the decline in box quality, limiting its practicality in clinical reality. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Han Zhou , Yan Cao , Haoran Dou , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

The recently released Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown powerful zero-shot segmentation capabilities through a semi-automatic annotation setup in which the user can provide a prompt in the form of clicks or bounding boxes. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Benjamin Towle , Xin Chen , Ke Zhou

3D part segmentation is a crucial and challenging task in 3D perception, playing a vital role in applications such as robotics, 3D generation, and 3D editing. Recent methods harness the powerful Vision Language Models (VLMs) for 2D-to-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yunhan Yang , Yukun Huang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Liangjun Lu , Xiaoyang Wu , Edmund Y. Lam , Yan-Pei Cao , Xihui Liu

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie