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Microscopy imaging plays a vital role in understanding many biological processes in development and disease. The recent advances in automation of microscopes and development of methods and markers for live cell imaging has led to rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Saad Ullah Akram , Juho Kannala , Lauri Eklund , Janne Heikkilä

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a new image segmentation tool trained with the largest available segmentation dataset. The model has demonstrated that, with prompts, it can create high-quality masks for general images. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Zhangcong She , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for general image segmentation. It has achieved impressive results on various natural image segmentation tasks. However, medical image segmentation (MIS) is more challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Lian Liu , Han Zhou , Ao Chang , Xinrui Zhou , Rusi Chen , Junxuan Yu , Jiongquan Chen , Chaoyu Chen , Sijing Liu , Haozhe Chi , Xindi Hu , Kejuan Yue , Lei Li , Vicente Grau , Deng-Ping Fan , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

The goal of our work is to perform pixel label semantic segmentation on 3D biomedical volumetric data. Manual annotation is always difficult for a large bio-medical dataset. So, we consider two cases where one dataset is fully labeled and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Shreya Roy , Anirban Chakraborty

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

In this paper, we propose a new approach for building cellular automata to solve real-world segmentation problems. We design and train a cellular automaton that can successfully segment high-resolution images. We consider a colony that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Liangcheng Luo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Blaise Agúera y Arcas

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Ward , Meredith K. Owen , O'Kira Coleman , Brian Noehren , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

The emergence of large models, also known as foundation models, has brought significant advancements to AI research. One such model is Segment Anything (SAM), which is designed for image segmentation tasks. However, as with other foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Runlong Cao , Yan Wang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

Cell detection and segmentation is fundamental for all downstream analysis of digital pathology images. However, obtaining the pixel-level ground truth for single cell segmentation is extremely labor intensive. To overcome this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alireza Chamanzar , Yao Nie

How a single fertilized cell gives rise to a complex array of specialized cell types in development is a central question in biology. The cells grow, divide, and acquire differentiated characteristics through poorly understood molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Da Kuang , Guanwen Qiu , Junhyong Kim

We present a new method for functional tissue unit segmentation at the cellular level, which utilizes the latest deep learning semantic segmentation approaches together with domain adaptation and semi-supervised learning techniques. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Volodymyr Sydorskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Denis Sakva , Oleksandr Zarichkovyi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

Accurate nuclei segmentation in microscopy whole slide images (WSIs) remains challenging due to variability in staining, imaging conditions, and tissue morphology. We propose CellGenNet, a knowledge distillation framework for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Srijan Ray , Bikesh K. Nirala , Jason T. Yustein , Sundaresh Ram

Cell tracking is a key computational task in live-cell microscopy, but fully automated analysis of high-throughput imaging requires reliable and, thus, uncertainty-aware data analysis tools, as the amount of data recorded within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Richard D. Paul , Johannes Seiffarth , David Rügamer , Hanno Scharr , Katharina Nöh

Tracking of plant cells in images obtained by microscope is a challenging problem due to biological phenomena such as large number of cells, non-uniform growth of different layers of the tightly packed plant cells and cell division.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Md Shazid Islam , Arindam Dutta , Calvin-Khang Ta , Kevin Rodriguez , Christian Michael , Mark Alber , G. Venugopala Reddy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Conventional multi-stage cell tracking approaches rely heavily on detection or segmentation in each frame as a prerequisite, requiring substantial resources for high-quality segmentation masks and increasing the overall prediction time. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yaxuan Song , Jianan Fan , Heng Huang , Mei Chen , Weidong Cai

Pre-trained on a large and diverse dataset, the segment anything model (SAM) is the first promptable foundation model in computer vision aiming at object segmentation tasks. In this work, we evaluate SAM for the task of nuclear instance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Kesi Xu , Lea Goetz , Nasir Rajpoot

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities of scaled-up segmentation models, enabling zero-shot generalization across a variety of domains. By leveraging large-scale foundational models as pre-trained models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Weijia Feng , Lingting Zhu , Lequan Yu

The construction industry represents a major sector in terms of resource consumption. Recycled construction material has high reuse potential, but quality monitoring of the aggregates is typically still performed with manual methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yu Zhou , Pelle Thielmann , Ayush Chamoli , Bruno Mirbach , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

Tumor lesion segmentation on CT or MRI images plays a critical role in cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Considering the inherent differences in tumor lesion segmentation data across various medical imaging modalities and equipment,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Hairong Shi , Songhao Han , Shaofei Huang , Yue Liao , Guanbin Li , Xiangxing Kong , Hua Zhu , Xiaomu Wang , Si Liu