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We Built a Batch Annotation Platform for Dental X-rays Using SAM 2 — Here's What We Learned

Community description: For our final year project, we tackled one of the most tedious bottlenecks in medical AI: annotation....

Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Waqas Ahmad

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The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta, is a promptable segmentation model: give it a point, a box, or a rough mask, and it returns a precise segmentation mask. The prompt plus the image goes to a Python backend serving SAM 2, which returns the mask. SAM 2 just lets one expert's judgment cover far more data.

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