From Single-Round to Sequential: Building Stateful Interactive Medical Image Segmentation with SegVol and GRU Corrector
摘要
Medical image segmentation has advanced considerably with foundational models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its medical variants, yet real-world clinical deployment remains constrained by heterogeneous imaging protocols, limited data generalization, and the inefficiency of manual interaction. While recent SAM-based frameworks (e.g., SAM2, MedSAM2) introduce memory-aware mechanisms, they still rely on dense re-encoding and lack targeted correction strategies. We propose “From Single-Round to Sequential: Building Stateful Interactive Segmentation with SegVol and GRU Corrector”, a lightweight framework that reformulates interactive segmentation as a sequential refinement process guided by uncertainty and error heuristics. Specifically, we design: (1) a GRU-based temporal module to encode interaction history and enable stateful correction, and (2) an uncertainty-driven region adaptation scheme that selectively focuses refinement on ambiguous or mis-segmented areas, reducing redundant computation while improving correction efficiency. On validation data, our framework achieves a progressive Dice coefficient improvement from 0.661 (single-box prompt) to 0.671 after three refinement rounds, showing a 1.5% absolute gain with diminishing returns in later interactions. These results highlight that uncertainty-guided, memory-efficient refinement offers a promising direction for practical interactive medical segmentation.