Dual-stage 3D medical image segmentation integrating learnable prompt generation and memory attention
摘要
Although MedSAM2 achieves 3D medical image segmentation through a memory attention mechanism, its performance declines significantly when manually designed prompts are replaced by automatically generated ones—particularly in the context of rare cases or multi-object segmentation scenarios. Current automatic prompt generation methods often extract prompt cues directly from image features, which typically lack rich spatiotemporal context and semantic information, resulting in suboptimal performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose DSSAM2-LAPG, a dual-stage 3D medical image segmentation network that integrates a Learnable Automatic Prompt-space Generator (LAPG) with memory attention. The LAPG acts as a trainable mapper that transforms raw 3D image features into a semantically-rich and spatially-aligned prompt embedding space. In the preliminary stage, this mapper utilizes learnable object tokens (concept embeddings) to dynamically interact with image features, generating coarse but reliable spatial priors