AxonEM Dataset: 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05451v1
• Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:24:03 GMT
• Title: AxonEM Dataset: 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions
• Authors: Donglai Wei, Kisuk Lee, Hanyu Li, Ran Lu, J. Alexander Bae, Zequan Liu, Lifu Zhang, M\'arcia dos Santos, Zudi Lin, Thomas Uram, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Brian Matejek, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
• Abstract summary: AxonEM dataset consists of two 30x30x30 um3 EM image volumes from the human and mouse cortex. We thoroughly proofread over 18,000 axon instances to provide dense 3D axon instance segmentation. We densely annotate nine ground truth subvolumes for training, per each data volume.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Electron microscopy (EM) enables the reconstruction of neural circuits at the level of individual synapses, which has been transformative for scientific discoveries. However, due to the complex morphology, an accurate reconstruction of cortical axons has become a major challenge. Worse still, there is no publicly available large-scale EM dataset from the cortex that provides dense ground truth segmentation for axons, making it difficult to develop and evaluate large-scale axon reconstruction methods. To address this, we introduce the AxonEM dataset, which consists of two 30x30x30 um^3 EM image volumes from the human and mouse cortex, respectively. We thoroughly proofread over 18,000 axon instances to provide dense 3D axon instance segmentation, enabling large-scale evaluation of axon reconstruction methods. In addition, we densely annotate nine ground truth subvolumes for training, per each data volume. With this, we reproduce two published state-of-the-art methods and provide their evaluation results as a baseline. We publicly release our code and data at https://connectomics-bazaar.github.io/proj/AxonEM/index.html to foster the development of advanced methods.

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