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Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention because of its ability to segment various objects in images given a prompt. The recently developed SAM 2 has extended this ability to video inputs. This opens an opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Yaqian Chen , Jichen Yang , Yuwen Chen , Maciej A. Mazurowski

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

The Foundation model for image segmentation, Segment Anything (SAM), has been actively researched in various fields since its proposal. Various researches have been proposed to adapt SAM to specific domains, with one notable approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Joohyeok Kim , Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Sangmin Lee

Surgical video segmentation is critical for AI to interpret spatial-temporal dynamics in surgery, yet model performance is constrained by limited annotated data. The SAM2 model, pretrained on natural videos, offers potential for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Cheng Yuan , Jian Jiang , Kunyi Yang , Lv Wu , Rui Wang , Zi Meng , Haonan Ping , Ziyu Xu , Yifan Zhou , Wanli Song , Hesheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Yutong Ban

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

Purpose: Accurate tumor segmentation is vital for adaptive radiation therapy (ART) but remains time-consuming and user-dependent. Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows promise for prompt-based segmentation but struggles with tumor accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Guoping Xu , Yan Dai , Hengrui Zhao , Ying Zhang , Jie Deng , Weiguo Lu , You Zhang

Foundation models like the segment anything model require high-quality manual prompts for medical image segmentation, which is time-consuming and requires expertise. SAM and its variants often fail to segment structures in ultrasound (US)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Assefa Seyoum Wahd , Banafshe Felfeliyan , Yuyue Zhou , Shrimanti Ghosh , Adam McArthur , Jiechen Zhang , Jacob L. Jaremko , Abhilash Hareendranathan

Intelligent medical image segmentation methods are rapidly evolving and being increasingly applied, yet they face the challenge of domain transfer, where algorithm performance degrades due to different data distributions between source and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Andrew Seohwan Yu , Mohsen Hariri , Xuecen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Vipin Chaudhary , Xiaojuan Li

Segmentation models such as Segment Anything Model (SAM) and SAM2 achieve strong prompt-driven zero-shot performance. However, their training on natural images limits domain transfer to medical data. Consequently, accurate segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tal Grossman , Noa Cahan , Lev Ayzenberg , Hayit Greenspan

Despite that the segment anything model (SAM) achieved impressive results on general-purpose semantic segmentation with strong generalization ability on daily images, its demonstrated performance on medical image segmentation is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shizhan Gong , Yuan Zhong , Wenao Ma , Jinpeng Li , Zhao Wang , Jingyang Zhang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Qi Dou

Few-shot semantic segmentation has recently attracted great attention. The goal is to develop a model capable of segmenting unseen classes using only a few annotated samples. Most existing approaches adapt a pre-trained model by training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Bernardo Forni , Gabriele Lombardi , Federico Pozzi , Mirco Planamente

We present SAM4EM, a novel approach for 3D segmentation of complex neural structures in electron microscopy (EM) data by leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) alongside advanced fine-tuning strategies. Our contributions include the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Uzair Shah , Marco Agus , Daniya Boges , Vanessa Chiappini , Mahmood Alzubaidi , Jens Schneider , Markus Hadwiger , Pierre J. Magistretti , Mowafa Househ , Corrado Calı

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 Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) demonstrates remarkable universal segmentation capabilities on natural images. However, its performance on ultrasound images is significantly degraded due to domain disparities. This limitation raises two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Yue Li , Qing Xu , Yixuan Zhang , Xiangjian He , Qian Zhang , Yuan Yao , Fiseha B. Tesem , Xin Chen , Ruili Wang , Zhen Chen , Chang Wen Chen

Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with prompt-driven methods gaining prominence due to their flexibility. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at point-prompted segmentation, while text-based models, often leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suzhe Xu , Jialin Peng , Chengyuan Zhang

The unprecedented developments in segmentation foundational models have become a dominant force in the field of computer vision, introducing a multitude of previously unexplored capabilities in a wide range of natural images and videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen

The advent of large models, also known as foundation models, has significantly transformed the AI research landscape, with models like Segment Anything (SAM) achieving notable success in diverse image segmentation scenarios. Despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tianrun Chen , Ankang Lu , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Chunan Yu , Deyi Ji , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

Segment anything model (SAM) demonstrates strong generalization ability on natural image segmentation. However, its direct adaptation in medical image segmentation tasks shows significant performance drops. It also requires an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Heng Guo , Jianfeng Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Tony C. W. Mok , Dazhou Guo , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Dakai Jin , Minfeng Xu