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In this paper, we present SonoSAM - a promptable foundational model for segmenting objects of interest on ultrasound images. Fine-tuned exclusively on a rich, diverse set of objects from \(\approx 200\)k ultrasound image-mask pairs, SonoSAM demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on 8 unseen ultrasound data-sets, outperforming competing methods by a significant margin on all metrics of interest. SonoSAM achieves average dice similarity score of >90% on almost all test data-sets within 2–6 clicks on an average. Further, to increase practical utility of SonoSAM, we propose a two-step process of fine-tuning followed by knowledge distillation to a smaller footprint model without comprising the performance. We present detailed qualitative and quantitative comparisons of SonoSAM with state-of-the-art methods showcasing efficacy of SonoSAM as one of the first reliable, generic foundational model for ultrasound.
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Ravishankar, H., Patil, R., Melapudi, V., Annangi, P. (2023). SonoSAM - Segment Anything on Ultrasound Images. In: Kainz, B., Noble, A., Schnabel, J., Khanal, B., Müller, J.P., Day, T. (eds) Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. ASMUS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44521-7_3
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