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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…

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Ultrasound imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic modalities, offering real-time, radiation-free assessment across diverse clinical domains. However, interpretation of ultrasound images remains challenging due to high noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Youssef Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Aylin Erman , Mark Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

While the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels in semantic segmentation for general-purpose images, its performance significantly deteriorates when applied to medical images, primarily attributable to insufficient representation of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yiming Zhang , Tianang Leng , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

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Medical image processing usually requires a model trained with carefully crafted datasets due to unique image characteristics and domain-specific challenges, especially in pathology. Primitive detection and segmentation in digitized tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Xiangxue Wang , Yiping Jiao , Xiao Gan , Wenlong Ming , Jun Xu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved remarkable successes in the realm of natural image segmentation, but its deployment in the medical imaging sphere has encountered challenges. Specifically, the model struggles with medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shreyank N Gowda , David A. Clifton

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

Ultrasound robots are increasingly used in medical diagnostics and early disease screening. However, current ultrasound robots lack the intelligence to understand human intentions and instructions, hindering autonomous ultrasound scanning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-20 Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Guanglin Cao , Zhen Lei , Zhen Chen , Hongbin Liu

The annotation of patient organs is a crucial part of various diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as radiotherapy planning. Manual annotation is extremely time-consuming, while its automation using modern image analysis techniques has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Leila Khaertdinova , Ilya Pershin , Tatiana Shmykova , Bulat Ibragimov

Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chunzheng Zhu , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin , Feng Wang , Hongwei Wang , Lei Zhao , Shengli Li , Kenli Li

Anatomical understanding through deep learning is critical for automatic report generation, intra-operative navigation, and organ localization in medical imaging; however, its progress is constrained by the scarcity of expert-labeled data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yiwei Li , Yikang Liu , Jiaqi Guo , Lin Zhao , Zheyuan Zhang , Xiao Chen , Boris Mailhe , Ankush Mukherjee , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Foundation models have taken over natural language processing and image generation domains due to the flexibility of prompting. With the recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), this prompt-driven paradigm has entered image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Saikat Roy , Tassilo Wald , Gregor Koehler , Maximilian R. Rokuss , Nico Disch , Julius Holzschuh , David Zimmerer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates powerful zero-shot capabilities; however, its accuracy and robustness significantly decrease when applied to medical image segmentation. Existing methods address this issue through modality fusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yiheng Zhong , Zihong Luo , Chengzhi Liu , Feilong Tang , Zelin Peng , Ming Hu , Yingzhen Hu , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge , Imran Razzak

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

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for biomedical image segmentation. These models are often trained with heavy supervision, relying on pairs of images and corresponding voxel-level labels. However, obtaining segmentations of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Evan M. Yu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

Medical imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of various medical conditions, with radiology and pathology heavily reliant on precise image segmentation. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Amin Ranem , Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The segmentation foundation model, e.g., Segment Anything Model (SAM), has attracted increasing interest in the medical image community. Early pioneering studies primarily concentrated on assessing and improving SAM's performance from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Qin Li , Yizhe Zhang , Yan Li , Jun Lyu , Meng Liu , Longyu Sun , Mengting Sun , Qirong Li , Wenyue Mao , Xinran Wu , Yajing Zhang , Yinghua Chu , Shuo Wang , Chengyan Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has drawn significant attention from researchers who work on medical image segmentation because of its generalizability. However, researchers have found that SAM may have limited performance on medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Andres Diaz-Pinto , Haowei Li , Alejandro Martin-Gomez , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

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