{"ID":2885717,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04305","arxiv_id":"2508.04305","title":"Edge2Prompt: Modality-Agnostic Model for Out-of-Distribution Liver Segmentation","abstract":"Liver segmentation is essential for preoperative planning in interventions like tumor resection or transplantation, but implementation in clinical workflows faces challenges due to modality-specific tools and data scarcity. We propose Edge2Prompt, a novel pipeline for modality-agnostic liver segmentation that generalizes to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Our method integrates classical edge detection with foundation models. Modality-agnostic edge maps are first extracted from input images, then processed by a U-Net to generate logit-based prompts. These prompts condition the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM-2) to generate 2D liver segmentations, which can then be reconstructed into 3D volumes. Evaluated on the multi-modal CHAOS dataset, Edge2Prompt achieves competitive results compared to classical segmentation methods when trained and tested in-distribution (ID), and outperforms them in data-scarce scenarios due to the SAM-2 module. Furthermore, it achieves a mean Dice Score of 86.4% on OOD tasks, outperforming U-Net baselines by 27.4% and other self-prompting methods by 9.1%, demonstrating its effectiveness. This work bridges classical and foundation models for clinically adaptable, data-efficient segmentation.","short_abstract":"Liver segmentation is essential for preoperative planning in interventions like tumor resection or transplantation, but implementation in clinical workflows faces challenges due to modality-specific tools and data scarcity. We propose Edge2Prompt, a novel pipeline for modality-agnostic liver segmentation that generaliz...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04305","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04305v3","authors":"[\"Nathan Hollet\",\"Oumeymah Cherkaoui\",\"Philippe C. Cattin\",\"Sidaty El Hadramy\"]","published":"2025-08-06T10:44:03Z","proceeding":"eess.IV","tasks":"[\"eess.IV\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}