{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/enforcing-morphological-information-in-fully","title":"Enforcing Morphological Information in Fully Convolutional Networks to Improve Cell Instance Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy Images","arxiv_id":"2106.05843","date":"2021-06-10","proceeding":null,"authors":["Willard Zamora-Cardenas","Mauro Mendez","Saul Calderon-Ramirez","Martin Vargas","Gerardo Monge","Steve Quiros","David Elizondo","Miguel A. Molina-Cabello"],"abstract":"Cell instance segmentation in fluorescence microscopy images is becoming essential for cancer dynamics and prognosis. Data extracted from cancer dynamics allows to understand and accurately model different metabolic processes such as proliferation. This enables customized and more precise cancer treatments. However, accurate cell instance segmentation, necessary for further cell tracking and behavior analysis, is still challenging in scenarios with high cell concentration and overlapping edges. Within this framework, we propose a novel cell instance segmentation approach based on the well-known U-Net architecture. To enforce the learning of morphological information per pixel, a deep distance transformer (DDT) acts as a back-bone model. The DDT output is subsequently used to train a top-model. The following top-models are considered: a three-class (\\emph{e.g.,} foreground, background and cell border) U-net, and a watershed transform. The obtained results suggest a performance boost over traditional U-Net architectures. This opens an interesting research line around the idea of injecting morphological information into a fully convolutional model.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05843v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05843v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"enforcing-morphological-information-in-fully","repo_url":"https://github.com/wizaca23/BBBC006-Instance-Segmentation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"cell-tracking","task_name":"Cell Tracking"},{"task_slug":"instance-segmentation","task_name":"Instance Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"prognosis","task_name":"Prognosis"},{"task_slug":"segmentation","task_name":"Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-segmentation","task_name":"Semantic Segmentation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"concatenated-skip-connection","method_name":"Concatenated Skip Connection"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"max-pooling","method_name":"Max Pooling"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"u-net","method_name":"U-Net"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}