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Therefore, ARAMSAM (agricultural rapid annotation module based on segment anything models) was developed, a user interface that orchestrates the pre-labelling capabilities of both the segment anything models (SAM 1, SAM 2) and conventional annotation tools. One\n                    <jats:italic>in silico<\/jats:italic>\n                    experiment on zero-shot performance of SAM 1 and SAM 2 on three unseen agricultural datasets and another experiment on hyperparameter optimization of the automatic mask generators (AMG) were conducted. In a user experiment, 14 agricultural experts applied ARAMSAM to quantify the reduction of annotation times. SAM 2 benefited greatly from hyperparameter optimization of its AMG. Based on ground-truth masks matched with predicted masks, the\n                    <jats:italic>\n                      F\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    <\/jats:italic>\n                    -score of SAM 2 improved from 0.05 to 0.74, while that of SAM 1 was improved from 0.87 to 0.93. The user interaction time could be reduced to 2.1 s\/mask on single images (SAM 1) and to 1.6 s\/mask on image sequences (SAM 2) compared to polygon drawing (9.7 s\/mask). This study demonstrates the potential of segment anything models as incorporated into ARAMSAM to significantly accelerate the process of segmentation mask annotation in agriculture and other fields. 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