CLISC: Bridging clip and sam by enhanced cam for unsupervised brain tumor segmentation

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Ma, Xiaochuan, Fu, Jia, Liao, Wenjun, Zhang, Shichuan, Wang, Guotai
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866912205655506944
author Ma, Xiaochuan
Fu, Jia
Liao, Wenjun
Zhang, Shichuan
Wang, Guotai
author_facet Ma, Xiaochuan
Fu, Jia
Liao, Wenjun
Zhang, Shichuan
Wang, Guotai
contents Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human annotations while the performance is often limited. In this study, we present a novel unsupervised segmentation approach that leverages the capabilities of foundation models, and it consists of three main steps: (1) A vision-language model (i.e., CLIP) is employed to obtain image-level pseudo-labels for training a classification network. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is then employed to extract Regions of Interest (ROIs), where an adaptive masking-based data augmentation is used to enhance ROI identification.(2) The ROIs are used to generate bounding box and point prompts for the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to obtain segmentation pseudo-labels. (3) A 3D segmentation network is trained with the SAM-derived pseudo-labels, where low-quality pseudo-labels are filtered out in a self-learning process based on the similarity between the SAM's output and the network's prediction. Evaluation on the BraTS2020 dataset demonstrates that our approach obtained an average Dice Similarity Score (DSC) of 85.60%, outperforming five state-of-the-art unsupervised segmentation methods by more than 10 percentage points. Besides, our approach outperforms directly using SAM for zero-shot inference, and its performance is close to fully supervised learning.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2501_16246
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle CLISC: Bridging clip and sam by enhanced cam for unsupervised brain tumor segmentation
Ma, Xiaochuan
Fu, Jia
Liao, Wenjun
Zhang, Shichuan
Wang, Guotai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human annotations while the performance is often limited. In this study, we present a novel unsupervised segmentation approach that leverages the capabilities of foundation models, and it consists of three main steps: (1) A vision-language model (i.e., CLIP) is employed to obtain image-level pseudo-labels for training a classification network. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is then employed to extract Regions of Interest (ROIs), where an adaptive masking-based data augmentation is used to enhance ROI identification.(2) The ROIs are used to generate bounding box and point prompts for the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to obtain segmentation pseudo-labels. (3) A 3D segmentation network is trained with the SAM-derived pseudo-labels, where low-quality pseudo-labels are filtered out in a self-learning process based on the similarity between the SAM's output and the network's prediction. Evaluation on the BraTS2020 dataset demonstrates that our approach obtained an average Dice Similarity Score (DSC) of 85.60%, outperforming five state-of-the-art unsupervised segmentation methods by more than 10 percentage points. Besides, our approach outperforms directly using SAM for zero-shot inference, and its performance is close to fully supervised learning.
title CLISC: Bridging clip and sam by enhanced cam for unsupervised brain tumor segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16246