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XCT-SAM: Sequential Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation of SAM for Industrial

Defect segmentation in additive manufacturing (AM) X-ray computed tomography (XCT) images remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and large distribution shifts across scan conditions. Although recent foundation models such as the

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