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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Developing machine learning models for CT imaging requires large, diverse, and annotated datasets.
  • Manual 3D segmentation is time-consuming and costly, hindering dataset creation.
  • Radiologists often provide sparse annotations (lines, arrows) stored in DICOM objects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for converting sparse radiologist annotations into 3D segmentations for CT imaging.
  • To introduce SAM2CT, the first promptable segmentation model for converting radiologist annotations into 3D CT segmentations.
  • To enable the creation of large-scale annotated datasets from existing clinical data.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed SAM2CT, a promptable segmentation model extending SAM2.
  • Augmented prompt encoder to accept arrow and line inputs.
  • Introduced a memory-conditioned module (MCM) for improved volumetric segmentation accuracy across slices.

Main Results:

  • SAM2CT achieved high Dice Similarity Coefficients (DSC) on public benchmarks (0.649 for arrows, 0.757 for lines).
  • Generated clinically acceptable 3D segmentations in 87% of cases using existing PACS annotations.
  • Demonstrated strong zero-shot performance on emergency department findings like abscesses (DSC=0.610) and gallstones (DSC=0.725).

Conclusions:

  • SAM2CT effectively converts sparse radiologist annotations into accurate 3D CT segmentations.
  • Leveraging historical grayscale softcopy presentation state (GSPS) annotations is a scalable approach for generating large-scale 3D CT segmentation datasets.
  • This opportunistic promptable segmentation paradigm significantly advances AI development in medical imaging.