Medical image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in modern healthcare. Every pixel in a scan tells a story, whether it marks a healthy cell, a cancerous growth, or a vital organ boundary.

For example, in a photo of a box of fruit, using image segmentation, an AI model would be able to identify each individual fruit photographed and the box, as seen by the Meta demo.

According to a blog post from Meta, SAM is an image segmentation model that can respond to text prompts or user clicks to isolate specific objects within an image.