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New SAM3-based method enables annotation-free surgical instrument segmentation

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Researchers have developed a novel two-stage framework for segmenting surgical instruments in endoscopic images without requiring manual annotation. This approach utilizes the Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) with a generic text prompt "tool" to generate initial binary masks. A vision-language model, Qwen, is then employed to classify these masks into specific instrument instances. While not matching fully supervised methods, this technique shows promise for annotation-free surgical instrument segmentation, highlighting both the capabilities and limitations of SAM3. AI

IMPACT This research offers a potential pathway to more automated and scalable surgical assistance tools by reducing the need for manual data annotation.

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New SAM3-based method enables annotation-free surgical instrument segmentation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Nakul Poudel, Richard Simon, Cristian A. Linte ·

    Toward Mask Annotation-Free Surgical Instrument Segmentation from Endoscopic Images Using Text-Prompted Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3)

    arXiv:2608.08844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation is a fundamental task for computer-assisted interventions, yet most existing methods rely on pixel-level annotations or manual spatial prompts, which limit scalability and automation. The recently in…

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