DB-SAM: Delving into High Quality Universal Medical Image Segmentation
<|reference_start|>DB-SAM: Delving into High Quality Universal Medical Image Segmentation: Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated promising segmentation capabilities in a variety of downstream segmentation tasks. However in the context of universal medical image segmentation there exists a notable performance discrepancy when directly applying SAM due to the domain gap between natural and 2D/3D medical data. In this work, we propose a dual-branch adapted SAM framework, named DB-SAM, that strives to effectively bridge this domain gap. Our dual-branch adapted SAM contains two branches in parallel: a ViT branch and a convolution branch. The ViT branch incorporates a learnable channel attention block after each frozen attention block, which captures domain-specific local features. On the other hand, the convolution branch employs a light-weight convolutional block to extract domain-specific shallow features from the input medical image. To perform cross-branch feature fusion, we design a bilateral cross-attention block and a ViT convolution fusion block, which dynamically combine diverse information of two branches for mask decoder. Extensive experiments on large-scale medical image dataset with various 3D and 2D medical segmentation tasks reveal the merits of our proposed contributions. On 21 3D medical image segmentation tasks, our proposed DB-SAM achieves an absolute gain of 8.8%, compared to a recent medical SAM adapter in the literature. The code and model are available at https://github.com/AlfredQin/DB-SAM.<|reference_end|>
@article{qin2024db-sam:,
    title={DB-SAM: Delving into High Quality Universal Medical Image Segmentation},
    author={Chao Qin, Jiale Cao, Huazhu Fu, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04172},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.04172},
    primaryClass={eess.IV cs.CV}
}