$μ$Match: Foundation Models for Semi-supervised Learning and Domain Adaptation in EM

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21605v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:07:16 GMT
• Title: $μ$Match: Foundation Models for Semi-supervised Learning and Domain Adaptation in EM
• Abstract summary: Vision foundation models have substantially advanced computer vision, enabling state-of-the-art performance in zero- and few-shot settings.<n>We propose $$Match, a framework for semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation that leverages foundation models.<n>We implement state-of-the-art student-teacher-based methods and evaluate multiple foundation models on challenging EM tasks, including mitochondrion, nucleus, and neurite segmentation.
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• Abstract: Vision foundation models have substantially advanced computer vision, enabling state-of-the-art performance in zero- and few-shot settings. They have been successfully applied to biomedical imaging tasks ranging from organ segmentation in computed tomography to cell segmentation in light microscopy. Electron microscopy (EM) is a central modality for analyzing cellular ultrastructure due to its nanometer-scale resolution. However, the application of foundation models in EM has so far been limited to specific organelles, such as mitochondria, largely due to the diversity of segmentation tasks and the scarcity of comprehensively annotated data. As a result, EM segmentation still predominantly relies on supervised learning, requiring extensive manual annotation and limiting ultrastructural analysis. To address this gap, we propose $μ$Match, a framework for semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation that leverages foundation models. We implement state-of-the-art student-teacher-based methods and evaluate multiple foundation models (SAM, SAM2, $μ$SAM, DINOv2/v3) on challenging EM tasks, including mitochondrion, nucleus, and neurite segmentation. Our results demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines and highlight a path toward substantially reducing the annotation effort in EM.

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