EviATTA: Evidential Active Test-Time Adaptation for Medical Segment Anything Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14666v1
• Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:46:31 GMT
• Title: EviATTA: Evidential Active Test-Time Adaptation for Medical Segment Anything Models
• Abstract summary: We propose Evidential Active Test-Time Adaptation (EviATTA), which is to our knowledge, the first ATTA framework tailored for medical SAMs.<n>Specifically, we adopt the Dirichlet-based Evidential Modeling to decompose overall predictive uncertainty into distribution uncertainty and data uncertainty.<n>We show that EviATTA consistently improves adaptation reliability with minimal expert feedback under both batch-wise and instance-wise test-time adaptation settings.
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• Abstract: Deploying foundational medical Segment Anything Models (SAMs) via test-time adaptation (TTA) is challenging under large distribution shifts, where test-time supervision is often unreliable. While active test-time adaptation (ATTA) introduces limited expert feedback to improve reliability, existing ATTA methods still suffer from unreliable uncertainty estimation and inefficient utilization of sparse annotations. To address these issues, we propose Evidential Active Test-Time Adaptation (EviATTA), which is, to our knowledge, the first ATTA framework tailored for medical SAMs. Specifically, we adopt the Dirichlet-based Evidential Modeling to decompose overall predictive uncertainty into distribution uncertainty and data uncertainty. Building on this decomposition, we design a Hierarchical Evidential Sampling strategy, where image-wise distribution uncertainty is used to select informative shifted samples, while distance-aware data uncertainty guides sparse pixel annotations to resolve data ambiguities. We further introduce Dual Consistency Regularization, which enforces progressive prompt consistency on sparsely labeled samples to better exploit sparse supervision and applies variational feature consistency on unlabeled samples to stabilize adaptation. Extensive experiments on six medical image segmentation datasets demonstrate that EviATTA consistently improves adaptation reliability with minimal expert feedback under both batch-wise and instance-wise test-time adaptation settings.

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