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| author | Xiao, Ruiqiang Xing, Zhaohu Yang, Yijun Han, Zhenyan Wang, Weiming Wu, Kaishun Zhu, Lei |
| author_facet | Xiao, Ruiqiang Xing, Zhaohu Yang, Yijun Han, Zhenyan Wang, Weiming Wu, Kaishun Zhu, Lei |
| contents | Ultrasound video segmentation is clinically valuable yet difficult due to speckle noise, weak boundaries, and rapid anatomical deformation. Recent promptable foundation models enable point-guided segmentation, but their direct deployment in ultrasound remains unreliable: a single point provides insufficient spatial context to resolve scale ambiguity, and greedy memory updates amplify early errors into severe temporal drift. We present EchoPilot, a training-free framework for ultrasound video segmentation under sparse first-frame interaction, requiring only a single point click and an anatomical category name. EchoPilot orchestrates a frozen medical vision-language model (VLM) for semantic localization, a vision foundation model (VFM) for dense geometric feature extraction, and a promptable video segmentor for mask prediction and propagation. To resolve initialization ambiguity, we propose Scale-Space Semantic Prompting, which first selects an optimal contextual view via a parameter-free S.E.E.D. (Semantic Energy-Entropy Density) criterion, and then synthesizes geometrically precise auxiliary point prompts from dense foundation features without additional user interaction. To reduce propagation drift, a Reliability-Gated Memory update is further introduced to selectively freeze the segmentor's memory bank under uncertain predictions, preventing error accumulation. We also contribute the first dynamic fetal placenta ultrasound video segmentation dataset with 671 annotated frames. Across three ultrasound video datasets, EchoPilot achieves state-of-the-art performance under the sparse-interactive setting, consistently outperforming training-free baselines and finetuned specialists. |
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| spellingShingle | EchoPilot: Training-Free Ultrasound Video Segmentation via Scale-Space Semantic Prompting and Reliability-Gated Memory Xiao, Ruiqiang Xing, Zhaohu Yang, Yijun Han, Zhenyan Wang, Weiming Wu, Kaishun Zhu, Lei Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Ultrasound video segmentation is clinically valuable yet difficult due to speckle noise, weak boundaries, and rapid anatomical deformation. Recent promptable foundation models enable point-guided segmentation, but their direct deployment in ultrasound remains unreliable: a single point provides insufficient spatial context to resolve scale ambiguity, and greedy memory updates amplify early errors into severe temporal drift. We present EchoPilot, a training-free framework for ultrasound video segmentation under sparse first-frame interaction, requiring only a single point click and an anatomical category name. EchoPilot orchestrates a frozen medical vision-language model (VLM) for semantic localization, a vision foundation model (VFM) for dense geometric feature extraction, and a promptable video segmentor for mask prediction and propagation. To resolve initialization ambiguity, we propose Scale-Space Semantic Prompting, which first selects an optimal contextual view via a parameter-free S.E.E.D. (Semantic Energy-Entropy Density) criterion, and then synthesizes geometrically precise auxiliary point prompts from dense foundation features without additional user interaction. To reduce propagation drift, a Reliability-Gated Memory update is further introduced to selectively freeze the segmentor's memory bank under uncertain predictions, preventing error accumulation. We also contribute the first dynamic fetal placenta ultrasound video segmentation dataset with 671 annotated frames. Across three ultrasound video datasets, EchoPilot achieves state-of-the-art performance under the sparse-interactive setting, consistently outperforming training-free baselines and finetuned specialists. |
| title | EchoPilot: Training-Free Ultrasound Video Segmentation via Scale-Space Semantic Prompting and Reliability-Gated Memory |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25944 |