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ArticleMedical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention2024

FastSAM3D: An Efficient Segment Anything Model for 3D Volumetric Medical Images.

Yiqing Shen, Jingxing Li, Xinyuan Shao, Blanca Inigo Romillo, Ankush Jindal, David Dreizin, Mathias Unberath

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Article in Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Intelligent control of robotic X-ray devices using a language-promptable digital twin.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
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  12. ProtoSAM-3D: Interactive semantic segmentation in volumetric medical imaging via a Segment Anything Model and mask-level prototypes.Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society · 2025
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  13. ProtoSAM-2D: 2D Semantic Segment Anything Model with Mask-Level Prototype-Learning and Distillation.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2025
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  16. FastSAM-3DSlicer: A 3D-Slicer Extension for 3D Volumetric Segment Anything Model with Uncertainty Quantification.Foundation models for general medical AI : second international workshop, MedAGI 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6, 2024, proceedings. MedAGI (Workshop) (2nd : 2024 : Marrakech, Morocco) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yiqing ShenJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Jingxing LiJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Xinyuan ShaoJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Blanca Inigo RomilloJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Ankush JindalJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
David DreizinUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Mathias UnberathJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

Funding

Human-centered CT-based CADx Tools for Traumatic Torso HemorrhageR01GM148987 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI David Dreizin · 2023 to 2026
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM148987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Segment anything models (SAMs) are gaining attention for their zero-shot generalization capability in segmenting objects of unseen classes and in unseen domains when properly prompted. Interactivity is a key strength of SAMs, allowing users to iteratively provide prompts that specify objects of interest to refine outputs. However, to realize the interactive use of SAMs for 3D medical imaging tasks, rapid inference times are necessary. High memory requirements and long processing delays remain constraints that hinder the adoption of SAMs for this purpose. Specifically, while 2D SAMs applied to 3D volumes contend with repetitive computation to process all slices independently, 3D SAMs suffer from an exponential increase in model parameters and FLOPS. To address these challenges, we present FastSAM3D which accelerates SAM inference to 8 milliseconds per 128 × 128 × 128 3D volumetric image on an NVIDIA A100 GPU. This speedup is accomplished through 1) a novel layer-wise progressive distillation scheme that enables knowledge transfer from a complex 12-layer ViT-B to a lightweight 6-layer ViT-Tiny variant encoder without training from scratch; and 2) a novel 3D sparse flash attention to replace vanilla attention operators, substantially reducing memory needs and improving parallelization. Experiments on three diverse datasets reveal that FastSAM3D achieves a remarkable speedup of 527.38× compared to 2D SAMs and 8.75× compared to 3D SAMs on the same volumes without significant performance decline. Thus, FastSAM3D opens the door for low-cost truly interactive SAM-based 3D medical imaging segmentation with commonly used GPU hardware. Code is available at https://github.com/arcadelab/FastSAM3D.

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Foundation ModelInteractive SegmentationModel AccelerationSegment Anything Model (SAM)

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PMID40861900
PMCPMC12377522

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