Summary of Point-supervised Brain Tumor Segmentation with Box-prompted Medsam, by Xiaofeng Liu et al.
Point-supervised Brain Tumor Segmentation with Box-prompted MedSAM
by Xiaofeng Liu, Jonghye Woo, Chao Ma, Jinsong Ouyang, Georges El Fakhri
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel framework for point-supervised medical image segmentation (PSS) that leverages recent advancements in vision foundational models, such as MedSAM. The proposed approach, which includes semantic box-prompt generator (SBPG) and prompt-guided spatial refinement (PGSR), enables the conversion of point inputs into pseudo bounding box suggestions and refines them through prototype-based semantic similarity. This iterative framework is evaluated on BraTS2018 dataset for whole brain tumor segmentation, demonstrating superior performance compared to traditional PSS methods and on par with box-supervised methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Medical image segmentation can be tricky! Researchers are trying to make it easier by using machines that can learn from examples. They want to teach these machines to draw boundaries around things in images without needing human experts to label every single detail. The problem is, the machines need some guidance to get started. This study shows how to give them a little nudge in the right direction, making the process more accurate and efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bounding box » Image segmentation » Prompt » Supervised
