Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Scientific Images without AI-Ready Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24039v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:45:23 GMT
• Title: Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Scientific Images without AI-Ready Data
• Authors: Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Jack Lang, Obeen Kwon, Iryna Zenyuk, Valerie Brogden, Adam Weber, Daniela Ushizima,
• Abstract summary: Zenesis is a comprehensive no-code interactive platform designed to minimize barriers posed by data readiness for scientific images.<n>We develop lightweight multi-modal adaptation techniques that enable zero-shot operation on raw scientific data.<n>Our results demonstrate that Zenesis is a powerful tool for scientific applications, particularly in fields where high-quality annotated datasets are unavailable.
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• Abstract: Zero-shot and prompt-based technologies capitalized on using frequently occurring images to transform visual reasoning tasks, which explains why such technologies struggle with valuable yet scarce scientific image sets. In this work, we propose Zenesis, a comprehensive no-code interactive platform designed to minimize barriers posed by data readiness for scientific images. We develop lightweight multi-modal adaptation techniques that enable zero-shot operation on raw scientific data, along with human-in-the-loop refinement and heuristic-based temporal enhancement options. We demonstrate the performance of our approach through comprehensive comparison and validation on challenging Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) data of catalyst-loaded membranes. Zenesis significantly outperforms baseline methods, achieving an average accuracy of 0.947, an Intersection over Union (IOU) of 0.858, and a Dice score of 0.923 for amorphous catalyst samples and accuracy of 0.987, an IOU of 0.857, and a Dice score of 0.923 for crystalline samples. These results mark a substantial improvement over traditional methods like Otsu thresholding and even advanced models like Segment Anything Model (SAM) when used in isolation. Our results demonstrate that Zenesis is a powerful tool for scientific applications, particularly in fields where high-quality annotated datasets are unavailable, accelerating accurate analysis of experimental imaging.

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