Transformer-based Detection of Microorganisms on High-Resolution Petri Dish Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09436v2
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:32:29 GMT
• Title: Transformer-based Detection of Microorganisms on High-Resolution Petri Dish Images
• Authors: Nikolas Ebert, Didier Stricker, Oliver Wasenm\"uller
• Abstract summary: Medical or pharmaceutical processes have strict guidelines regarding continuous hygiene monitoring. This often involves the labor-intensive task of manually counting microorganisms in Petri dishes by trained personnel. We introduce AttnPAFPN, a high-resolution detection pipeline that leverages a novel transformer variation, the efficient-global self-attention mechanism.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Many medical or pharmaceutical processes have strict guidelines regarding continuous hygiene monitoring. This often involves the labor-intensive task of manually counting microorganisms in Petri dishes by trained personnel. Automation attempts often struggle due to major challenges: significant scaling differences, low separation, low contrast, etc. To address these challenges, we introduce AttnPAFPN, a high-resolution detection pipeline that leverages a novel transformer variation, the efficient-global self-attention mechanism. Our streamlined approach can be easily integrated in almost any multi-scale object detection pipeline. In a comprehensive evaluation on the publicly available AGAR dataset, we demonstrate the superior accuracy of our network over the current state-of-the-art. In order to demonstrate the task-independent performance of our approach, we perform further experiments on COCO and LIVECell datasets.

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