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Instance segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) volumes is tough due to complex shapes and sparse annotations. Self-supervised learning helps but still struggles with intricate visual patterns in EM. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yinda Chen , Wei Huang , Xiaoyu Liu , Shiyu Deng , Qi Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

The promise of large-scale, high-resolution datasets from Electron Microscopy (EM) and X-ray Microtomography (XRM) lies in their ability to reveal neural structures and synaptic connectivity, which is critical for understanding the brain.…

Neuroimaging to neuropathology correlation (NTNC) promises to enable the transfer of microscopic signatures of pathology to in vivo imaging with MRI, ultimately enhancing clinical care. NTNC traditionally requires a volumetric MRI scan,…

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is pivotal in revealing intricate micro- and nanoscale features across various research fields. However, obtaining high-resolution SEM images presents challenges, including prolonged scanning durations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Tom Reclik , Setareh Medghalchi , Philipp Schumacher , Maximilian Wollenweber , Talal Al-Samman , Sandra Korte-Kerzel , Ulrich Kerzel

Electron microscopic connectomics is an ambitious research direction with the goal of studying comprehensive brain connectivity maps by using high-throughput, nano-scale microscopy. One of the main challenges in connectomics research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tran Minh Quan , David G. C. Hildebrand , Won-Ki Jeong

Automatic 3D neuron reconstruction is critical for analysing the morphology and functionality of neurons in brain circuit activities. However, the performance of existing tracing algorithms is hinged by the low image quality. Recently, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Heng Wang , Chaoyi Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Yang Song , Siqi Liu , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

The alignment of serial-section electron microscopy (ssEM) images is critical for efforts in neuroscience that seek to reconstruct neuronal circuits. However, each ssEM plane contains densely packed structures that vary from one section to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Inwan Yoo , David G. C. Hildebrand , Willie F. Tobin , Wei-Chung Allen Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Electromagnetic methods have become one of the most widely used techniques in geological exploration. With the remarkable success of deep learning, applying such techniques to EM methods has emerged as a promising research direction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shuang Wang , Xuben Wang , Fei Deng , Peifan Jiang , Jian Chen , Gianluca Fiandaca

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is indispensable in modern materials science, enabling high-resolution imaging across a wide range of structural, chemical, and functional investigations. However, SEM imaging remains constrained by…

Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi

Neuron segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) volumes is crucial for understanding brain circuits, yet the complex neuronal structures in high-resolution EM images present significant challenges. EM data exhibits unique characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yinda Chen , Haoyuan Shi , Xiaoyu Liu , Te Shi , Ruobing Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong , Feng Wu

Electron microscopy (EM) allows the identification of intracellular organelles such as mitochondria, providing insights for clinical and scientific studies. In recent years, a number of novel deep learning architectures have been published…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Daniel Franco-Barranco , Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia , Ignacio Arganda-Carreras

Neural circuit reconstruction at single synapse resolution is increasingly recognized as crucially important to decipher the function of biological nervous systems. Volume electron microscopy in serial transmission or scanning mode has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Larissa Heinrich , Jan Funke , Constantin Pape , Juan Nunez-Iglesias , Stephan Saalfeld

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is essential for quantitative analyses of cortical thickness and sulcal morphology. Although traditional and deep learning-based algorithmic pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

Foundation models for EEG analysis are still in their infancy, limited by two key challenges: (1) variability across datasets caused by differences in recording devices and configurations, and (2) the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of EEG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Navid Mohammadi Foumani , Soheila Ghane , Nam Nguyen , Mahsa Salehi , Geoffrey I. Webb , Geoffrey Mackellar

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has transformed structural biology by allowing to reconstruct 3D biomolecular structures up to near-atomic resolution. However, the 3D reconstruction process remains challenging, as the 3D structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bongjin Koo , Julien Martel , Ariana Peck , Axel Levy , Frédéric Poitevin , Nina Miolane

To build the connectomics map of the brain, we developed a new algorithm that can automatically refine the Membrane Detection Probability Maps (MDPM) generated to perform automatic segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) images. To achieve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Xundong Wu

Background and Objective: Advances in electron microscopy (EM) now allow three-dimensional (3D) imaging of hundreds of micrometers of tissue with nanometer-scale resolution, providing new opportunities to study the ultrastructure of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Andrea Behanova , Ali Abdollahzadeh , Ilya Belevich , Eija Jokitalo , Alejandra Sierra , Jussi Tohka

Electron Microscopy (EM) image (or volume) segmentation has become significantly important in recent years as an instrument for connectomics. This paper proposes a novel agglomerative framework for EM segmentation. In particular, given an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Toufiq Parag , Anirban Chakraborty , Stephen Plaza , Lou Scheffer

Cellular Electron Cryo-Tomography (CECT) is a powerful imaging technique for the 3D visualization of cellular structure and organization at submolecular resolution. It enables analyzing the native structures of macromolecular complexes and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-16 Chang Liu , Xiangrui Zeng , Ruogu Lin , Xiaodan Liang , Zachary Freyberg , Eric Xing , Min Xu