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The emerging field of connectomics aims to unlock the mysteries of the brain by understanding the connectivity between neurons. To map this connectivity, we acquire thousands of electron microscopy (EM) images with nanometer-scale…

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The 3D characterization of microstructures is crucial for understanding and designing functional materials. However, the scanning electron microscope (SEM), widely used in scientific research, captures only 2D electron intensity…

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Reconstructing a map of neuronal connectivity is a critical challenge in contemporary neuroscience. Recent advances in high-throughput serial section electron microscopy (EM) have produced massive 3D image volumes of nanoscale brain tissue…

Morphology based analysis of cell types has been an area of great interest to the neuroscience community for several decades. Recently, high resolution electron microscopy (EM) datasets of the mouse brain have opened up opportunities for…

Electron tomography (ET) allows high-resolution reconstructions of macromolecular complexes at nearnative state. Cellular structures segmentation in the reconstruction data from electron tomographic images is often required for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Enze Zhang , Fa Zhang , Zhiyong Liu , Xiaohua Wan , Lifa Zhu

Segmentation of cellular structures in electron microscopy (EM) images is fundamental to analyzing the morphology of neurons and glial cells in the healthy and diseased brain tissue. Current neuronal segmentation applications are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zewen Zhuo , Ilya Belevich , Ville Leinonen , Eija Jokitalo , Tarja Malm , Alejandra Sierra , Jussi Tohka

In the field of connectomics, neuroscientists seek to identify cortical connectivity comprehensively. Neuronal boundary detection from the Electron Microscopy (EM) images is often done to assist the automatic reconstruction of neuronal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Wei Shen , Bin Wang , Yuan Jiang , Yan Wang , Alan Yuille

Although deep encoder-decoder networks have achieved astonishing performance for mitochondria segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) images, they still produce coarse segmentations with lots of discontinuities and false positives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Zhimin Yuan , Jiajin Yi , Zhengrong Luo , Zhongdao Jia , Jialin Peng

High resolution volumetric neuroimaging datasets from electron microscopy (EM) and x-ray micro and holographic-nano tomography (XRM/XHN) are being generated at an increasing rate and by a growing number of research teams. These datasets are…

Segmentation of brain structures from magnetic resonance (MR) scans plays an important role in the quantification of brain morphology. Since 3D deep learning models suffer from high computational cost, 2D deep learning methods are favored…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yuemeng Li , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

We present a method combining affinity prediction with region agglomeration, which improves significantly upon the state of the art of neuron segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) in accuracy and scalability. Our method consists of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jan Funke , Fabian David Tschopp , William Grisaitis , Arlo Sheridan , Chandan Singh , Stephan Saalfeld , Srinivas C. Turaga

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique for determining the structure of proteins and other macromolecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. In single particle cryo-EM, the central problem is to reconstruct the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Ellen D. Zhong , Tristan Bepler , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

Neuron segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) aims to reconstruct the complete neuronal connectome; however, current deep learning-based methods are limited by their reliance on large-scale training data and extensive, time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Liuyun Jiang , Yanchao Zhang , Jinyue Guo , Yizhuo Lu , Ruining Zhou , Hua Han

The throughput of electron microscopes has increased significantly in recent years, enabling detailed analysis of cell morphology and ultrastructure. Analysis of neural circuits at single-synapse resolution remains the flagship target of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Constantin Pape , Alex Matskevych , Adrian Wolny , Julian Hennies , Giula Mizzon , Marion Louveaux , Jacob Musser , Alexis Maizel , Detlev Arendt , Anna Kreshuk

The current neuron reconstruction pipeline for electron microscopy (EM) data usually includes automatic image segmentation followed by extensive human expert proofreading. In this work, we aim to reduce human workload by predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Qihua Chen , Xuejin Chen , Chenxuan Wang , Yixiong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong , Feng Wu

State-of-the-art electron microscopes such as scanning electron microscopes (SEM), scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) have become increasingly sophisticated. However, the quality of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 I. Lobato , T. Friedrich , S. Van Aert

The field of connectomics has recently produced neuron wiring diagrams from relatively large brain regions from multiple animals. Most of these neural reconstructions were computed from isotropic (e.g., FIBSEM) or near isotropic (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Toufiq Parag , Fabian Tschopp , William Grisaitis , Srinivas C Turaga , Xuewen Zhang , Brian Matejek , Lee Kamentsky , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

We propose and test stable algorithms for the reconstruction of the internal conductivity of a biological object using acousto-electric measurements. Namely, the conventional impedance tomography scheme is supplemented by scanning the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Peter Kuchment , Leonid Kunyansky

Efforts to automate the reconstruction of neural circuits from 3D electron microscopic (EM) brain images are critical for the field of connectomics. An important computation for reconstruction is the detection of neuronal boundaries. Images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Kisuk Lee , Aleksandar Zlateski , Ashwin Vishwanathan , H. Sebastian Seung

Segmenting 3D cell nuclei from microscopy image volumes is critical for biological and clinical analysis, enabling the study of cellular expression patterns and cell lineages. However, current datasets for neuronal nuclei usually contain…