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Establishment of Gastric Cancer Patient-derived Xenograft Models and Primary Cell Lines

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Published on: July 19, 2019

Segment Anything Model for Gastric Cancer.

Lanlan Li¹, Chongyang Wang¹, Yi Geng¹

¹College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China.

Cancer Medicine

|September 24, 2025

Summary

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A new lightweight AI model, GC-SAM, efficiently segments gastric cancer tumors. This model significantly improves accuracy and reduces computational needs, making it suitable for medical devices.

Keywords:

SAM fine‐tune gastric cancer image segmentation knowledge distillation

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence in Oncology
Medical Image Analysis
Computational Pathology

Background:

Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide.
Accurate lesion localization is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment.
Existing AI segmentation models like Segment Anything Model (SAM) show promise but are resource-intensive for clinical use.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a lightweight and efficient AI model for gastric cancer segmentation.
To address the limitations of resource-intensive models in embedded medical contexts.
To improve the accuracy and speed of gastric cancer diagnosis and treatment planning.

Main Methods:

Proposed GC-SAM, a novel lightweight architecture for tumor segmentation.
Incorporated a knowledge distillation image encoder, prompt encoder, and mask decoder.
Replaced conventional, computationally demanding network components with efficient alternatives.

Main Results:

GC-SAM significantly outperformed classical and state-of-the-art segmentation models.
Achieved Dice score of 0.8186 and mIoU of 0.6504 on an internal test set.
Reduced inference time and parameter count by over 80% compared to SAM, with strong generalization on external datasets (Dice 0.8350).

Conclusions:

GC-SAM demonstrates high capability in segmenting gastric cancer tissue.
The model's lightweight nature shows practical potential for deployment in embedded medical imaging devices.
GC-SAM offers an efficient and accurate solution for gastric cancer analysis.