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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

Recently, foundation models trained on massive datasets to adapt to a wide range of tasks have attracted considerable attention and are actively being explored within the computer vision community. Among these, the Segment Anything Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Jun-Seok Yun , Yuseok Bae

Nuclear instance segmentation and classification provide critical quantitative foundations for digital pathology diagnosis. With the advent of the foundational Segment Anything Model (SAM), the accuracy and efficiency of nuclear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Liying Xu , Hongliang He , Wei Han , Hanbin Huang , Siwei Feng , Guohong Fu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently gained popularity in the field of image segmentation due to its impressive capabilities in various segmentation tasks and its prompt-based interface. However, recent studies and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Yuanpei Liu , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yanwu Xu , Yueming Jin

Although new vision foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have significantly enhanced zero-shot image segmentation capabilities, reliance on human-provided prompts poses significant challenges in adapting SAM2 to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Yuheng Bu , Kuang Gong

Precision medicine, such as patient-adaptive treatments assisted by medical image analysis, poses new challenges for segmentation algorithms in adapting to new patients, due to the large variability across different patients and the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chenhui Zhao , Liyue Shen

Open-vocabulary segmentation models such as SAM3 perform well across broad categories via text prompting, yet degrade when target classes are visually underrepresented in pretraining or depart from canonical depictions-limitations text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Abderrahmene Boudiaf , Irfan Hussain , Sajid Javed

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision. Existing methods are generally divided into two categories: automatic and interactive. Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

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 Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across numerous natural image segmentation tasks. However, SAM's performance significantly declines when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Cheng Chen , Juzheng Miao , Dufan Wu , Zhiling Yan , Sekeun Kim , Jiang Hu , Aoxiao Zhong , Zhengliang Liu , Lichao Sun , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Quanzheng Li

The reliance on large labeled datasets presents a significant challenge in medical image segmentation. Few-shot learning offers a potential solution, but existing methods often still require substantial training data. This paper proposes a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Haiyue Zu , Jun Ge , Heting Xiao , Jile Xie , Zhangzhe Zhou , Yifan Meng , Jiayi Ni , Junjie Niu , Linlin Zhang , Li Ni , Huilin Yang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently developed all-range foundation model for image segmentation. It can use sparse manual prompts such as bounding boxes to generate pixel-level segmentation in natural images but struggles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xing Yao , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Daiwei Lu , Ange Lou , Hao Li , Ruining Deng , Gabriel Arenas , Baris Oguz , Nadav Schwartz , Brett C Byram , Ipek Oguz

Deep learning based methods often suffer from performance degradation caused by domain shift. In recent years, many sophisticated network structures have been designed to tackle this problem. However, the advent of large model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhikai Wei , Wenhui Dong , Peilin Zhou , Yuliang Gu , Zhou Zhao , Yongchao Xu

In medical imaging, precise annotation of lesions or organs is often required. However, 3D volumetric images typically consist of hundreds or thousands of slices, making the annotation process extremely time-consuming and laborious.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bingzhi Shen , Lufan Chang , Siqi Chen , Shuxiang Guo , Hao Liu

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

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation typically requires large amount of labeled data for training, making it less applicable in clinical settings due to high annotation cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Yichi Zhang , Bohao Lv , Le Xue , Wenbo Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Yu Fu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

The Segment-Anything Model (SAM) is a vision foundation model for segmentation with a prompt-driven framework. SAM generates class-agnostic masks based on user-specified instance-referring prompts. However, adapting SAM for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hussni Mohd Zakir , Eric Tatt Wei Ho

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Ward , Meredith K. Owen , O'Kira Coleman , Brian Noehren , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates impressive zero-shot segmentation ability on natural images but encounters difficulties in medical imaging due to domain shifts, anatomical variability, and its reliance on user-provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yingzhen Hu , Yiheng Zhong , Ruobing Li , Yingxue Su , Jiabao An , Feilong Tang , Jionglong Su , Imran Razzak