articleMedical Image AnalysisMar 19, 2025HYBRID OA

Medical SAM adapter: Adapting segment anything model for medical image segmentation

National University of Singapore · University of Alberta · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

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 experiments have shown that SAM underperforms in medical image segmentation due to the lack of medical-specific knowledge. This raises the question of how to enhance SAM's segmentation capability for medical images. We propose the Medical SAM Adapter (Med-SA), which is one of the first methods to integrate SAM into medical image segmentation. Med-SA uses a light yet effective adaptation technique instead of fine-tuning the SAM model, incorporating domain-specific medical…

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Keywords
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computer vision
  • Segmentation
  • Computer science
  • Adapter (computing)
  • Image segmentation
  • Image (mathematics)
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