CRC-SAM: SAM-Based Multi-Modal Segmentation and Quantification of Colorectal Cancer in CT, Colonoscopy, and Histology Images

arXiv:2604.24793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CRC-SAM, a unified framework for colorectal cancer segmentation across colonoscopy, CT, and histopathology images. Unlike prior single-modality methods, CRC-SAM provides consistent, modality-agnostic segmentation throughout the clinical workflow. Built on MedSAM, it incorporates low-rank adaptation (LoRA) layers into a frozen encoder, enabling efficient domain transfer to underrepresented modalities with minimal trainable parameters. Experiments on MSD-Colon, CVC-ClinicDB, and EBHI-Seg demonstrate superior performance across modalities, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines and highlighting the effectiveness of lightweight LoRA adaptation for foundation-model-based colorectal cancer analysis.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-04-29