Optimizing Prompt Strategies for SAM: Advancing lesion Segmentation Across Diverse Medical Imaging Modalities

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Main Authors: Wang, Yuli, Shi, Victoria, Hsu, Wen-Chi, Dai, Yuwei, Yao, Sophie, Zhong, Zhusi, Zhang, Zishu, Wu, Jing, Maxwell, Aaron, Collins, Scott, Jiao, Zhicheng, Bai, Harrison X.
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author Wang, Yuli
Shi, Victoria
Hsu, Wen-Chi
Dai, Yuwei
Yao, Sophie
Zhong, Zhusi
Zhang, Zishu
Wu, Jing
Maxwell, Aaron
Collins, Scott
Jiao, Zhicheng
Bai, Harrison X.
author_facet Wang, Yuli
Shi, Victoria
Hsu, Wen-Chi
Dai, Yuwei
Yao, Sophie
Zhong, Zhusi
Zhang, Zishu
Wu, Jing
Maxwell, Aaron
Collins, Scott
Jiao, Zhicheng
Bai, Harrison X.
contents Purpose: To evaluate various Segmental Anything Model (SAM) prompt strategies across four lesions datasets and to subsequently develop a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to optimize SAM prompt placement. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included patients with four independent ovarian, lung, renal, and breast tumor datasets. Manual segmentation and SAM-assisted segmentation were performed for all lesions. A RL model was developed to predict and select SAM points to maximize segmentation performance. Statistical analysis of segmentation was conducted using pairwise t-tests. Results: Results show that increasing the number of prompt points significantly improves segmentation accuracy, with Dice coefficients rising from 0.272 for a single point to 0.806 for five or more points in ovarian tumors. The prompt location also influenced performance, with surface and union-based prompts outperforming center-based prompts, achieving mean Dice coefficients of 0.604 and 0.724 for ovarian and breast tumors, respectively. The RL agent achieved a peak Dice coefficient of 0.595 for ovarian tumors, outperforming random and alternative RL strategies. Additionally, it significantly reduced segmentation time, achieving a nearly 10-fold improvement compared to manual methods using SAM. Conclusion: While increased SAM prompts and non-centered prompts generally improved segmentation accuracy, each pathology and modality has specific optimal thresholds and placement strategies. Our RL agent achieved superior performance compared to other agents while achieving a significant reduction in segmentation time.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Prompt Strategies for SAM: Advancing lesion Segmentation Across Diverse Medical Imaging Modalities
Wang, Yuli
Shi, Victoria
Hsu, Wen-Chi
Dai, Yuwei
Yao, Sophie
Zhong, Zhusi
Zhang, Zishu
Wu, Jing
Maxwell, Aaron
Collins, Scott
Jiao, Zhicheng
Bai, Harrison X.
Image and Video Processing
Purpose: To evaluate various Segmental Anything Model (SAM) prompt strategies across four lesions datasets and to subsequently develop a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to optimize SAM prompt placement. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included patients with four independent ovarian, lung, renal, and breast tumor datasets. Manual segmentation and SAM-assisted segmentation were performed for all lesions. A RL model was developed to predict and select SAM points to maximize segmentation performance. Statistical analysis of segmentation was conducted using pairwise t-tests. Results: Results show that increasing the number of prompt points significantly improves segmentation accuracy, with Dice coefficients rising from 0.272 for a single point to 0.806 for five or more points in ovarian tumors. The prompt location also influenced performance, with surface and union-based prompts outperforming center-based prompts, achieving mean Dice coefficients of 0.604 and 0.724 for ovarian and breast tumors, respectively. The RL agent achieved a peak Dice coefficient of 0.595 for ovarian tumors, outperforming random and alternative RL strategies. Additionally, it significantly reduced segmentation time, achieving a nearly 10-fold improvement compared to manual methods using SAM. Conclusion: While increased SAM prompts and non-centered prompts generally improved segmentation accuracy, each pathology and modality has specific optimal thresholds and placement strategies. Our RL agent achieved superior performance compared to other agents while achieving a significant reduction in segmentation time.
title Optimizing Prompt Strategies for SAM: Advancing lesion Segmentation Across Diverse Medical Imaging Modalities
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17943