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MedSAM / SAM-Med3D (segment anything for medicine)

Adaptations of Meta's Segment Anything model that outline tumours and organs on any scan with a click.

MedSAM (Nature Communications 2024) fine-tuned SAM on 1.5M image-mask pairs across modalities; SAM-Med3D extends to volumes. Used for radiotherapy contouring and response measurement.

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How it works

MedSAM is a promptable segmentation transformer fine-tuned on medical masks.

Strengths
  • Interactive, general
Limitations
  • Needs prompts; boundary errors on small lesions
Since
2024

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