One Click per Cell Type Suffices: Training-free Group Interaction for Cell Instance Segmentation 文章

arXiv:2605.29429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cell instance segmentation models trained on cell-specific datasets suffer severe performance drops on out-of-distribution cell types, while interactive foundation models overcome this through per-instance prompting at a cost that is prohibitively expensive for histopathology images containing hundreds to thousands of densely packed instances. We introduce Group Prompting, a new paradigm that shifts interactive segmentation from per-instance $O(N)$ to per-type $O(T)$, where a single click per cell type suffices to segment all instances of that type. Our key observation is that the frozen image encoder of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) already clusters same-type cells in its feature space before any prompt is given.