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Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) is a recognized treatment for esophageal cancer, offering better patient outcomes compared to open surgery and traditional minimally invasive surgery. RAMIE is highly complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yiping Li , Romy van Jaarsveld , Ronald de Jong , Jasper Bongers , Gino Kuiper , Richard van Hillegersberg , Jelle Ruurda , Marcel Breeuwer , Yasmina Al Khalil

Effective clinical deployment of deep learning models in healthcare demands high generalization performance to ensure accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. In recent years, significant research has focused on improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Mohamed Hassan , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian

We propose a new benchmark for evaluating stereoscopic visual-inertial computer vision algorithms (SLAM/ SfM/ 3D Reconstruction/ Visual-Inertial Odometry) for minimally invasive surgical (MIS) interventions in the abdomen. Our MITI Dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Regine Hartwig , Daniel Ostler , Jean-Claude Rosenthal , Hubertus Feußner , Dirk Wilhelm , Dirk Wollherr

Sleep is vital for health, yet access to data alone does not guarantee improvement. While wearables and health apps enable tracking, users face a "Data-Action Gap," struggling to interpret metrics and translate them into action. Current…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hansoo Lee , Yoonjae Cho , Sonya S. Kwak , Rafael A. Calvo

Spatial transcriptomics enables spatial gene expression profiling, motivating computational models that capture spatially conditioned regulatory relationships. We introduce SAGE-FM, a lightweight spatial transcriptomics foundation model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xianghao Zhan , Jingyu Xu , Yuanning Zheng , Zinaida Good , Olivier Gevaert

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

Nuclei instance segmentation is critical in computational pathology for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Recently, the Segment Anything Model has demonstrated exceptional performance in various segmentation tasks, leveraging its rich priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jingze Su , Tianle Zhu , Jiaxin Cai , Zhiyi Wang , Qi Li , Xiao Zhang , Tong Tong , Shu Wang , Wenxi Liu

Navigating the ultrasound (US) probe to the standardized imaging plane (SIP) for image acquisition is a critical but operator-dependent task in conventional freehand diagnostic US. Robotic US systems (RUSS) offer the potential to enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xihan Ma , Mingjie Zeng , Jeffrey C. Hill , Beatrice Hoffmann , Ziming Zhang , Haichong K. Zhang

Foundation segmentation models such as SAM and SAM-2 perform well on natural images but struggle with brain MRIs where structures like the caudate and thalamus lack sharp boundaries and have low contrast. Rather than fine tune these models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Keith Moore

With the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) as a foundational model for image segmentation, its application has been extensively studied across various domains, including the medical field. However, its potential in the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 SeungKyu Kim , Hyun-Jic Oh , Seonghui Min , Won-Ki Jeong

Acoustoelectric (AE) imaging provides electro-anatomical contrast by mapping the distribution of electric fields in biological tissues, by delivering ultrasound waves which spatially modulate the medium resistivity via the AE effect. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Wei Yi Oon , Yuchen Tang , Baiqian Qi , Wei-Ning Lee

We present ENSAM (Equivariant, Normalized, Segment Anything Model), a lightweight and promptable model for universal 3D medical image segmentation. ENSAM combines a SegResNet-based encoder with a prompt encoder and mask decoder in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Elias Stenhede , Agnar Martin Bjørnstad , Arian Ranjbar

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities of scaled-up segmentation models, enabling zero-shot generalization across a variety of domains. By leveraging large-scale foundational models as pre-trained models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Weijia Feng , Lingting Zhu , Lequan Yu

Medical image segmentation often faces the challenge of prohibitively expensive annotation costs. While few-shot learning offers a promising solution to alleviate this burden, conventional approaches still rely heavily on pre-training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jie Xu , Xiaokang Li , Chengyu Yue , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo

Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have heightened interest in promptable zero-shot segmentation. Although these models perform strongly on natural images, their behavior on medical data remains insufficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Satrajit Chakrabarty , Ravi Soni

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

This paper presents a holistic approach to saliency-guided visual attention modeling (SVAM) for use by autonomous underwater robots. Our proposed model, named SVAM-Net, integrates deep visual features at various scales and semantics for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Ruobing Wang , Junaed Sattar

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

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

Despite the considerable progress in automatic abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT/MRI scans in recent years, a comprehensive evaluation of the models' capabilities is hampered by the lack of a large-scale benchmark from diverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yuanfeng Ji , Haotian Bai , Jie Yang , Chongjian Ge , Ye Zhu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Lingyan Zhang , Wanling Ma , Xiang Wan , Ping Luo