CellMixer: Annotation-free Semantic Cell Segmentation of Heterogeneous Cell Populations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00671v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 15:50:20 GMT
• Title: CellMixer: Annotation-free Semantic Cell Segmentation of Heterogeneous Cell Populations
• Authors: Mehdi Naouar, Gabriel Kalweit, Anusha Klett, Yannick Vogt, Paula Silvestrini, Diana Laura Infante Ramirez, Roland Mertelsmann, Joschka Boedecker, Maria Kalweit
• Abstract summary: We present CellMixer, an innovative annotation-free approach for the semantic segmentation of heterogeneous cell populations. Our results show that CellMixer can achieve competitive segmentation performance across multiple cell types and imaging modalities.
• Score: 9.335273591976648
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, several unsupervised cell segmentation methods have been presented, trying to omit the requirement of laborious pixel-level annotations for the training of a cell segmentation model. Most if not all of these methods handle the instance segmentation task by focusing on the detection of different cell instances ignoring their type. While such models prove adequate for certain tasks, like cell counting, other applications require the identification of each cell's type. In this paper, we present CellMixer, an innovative annotation-free approach for the semantic segmentation of heterogeneous cell populations. Our augmentation-based method enables the training of a segmentation model from image-level labels of homogeneous cell populations. Our results show that CellMixer can achieve competitive segmentation performance across multiple cell types and imaging modalities, demonstrating the method's scalability and potential for broader applications in medical imaging, cellular biology, and diagnostics.

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