Automated Training of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Cell Segmentation.
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SUBMITTER: Sadanandan SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5552800 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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Automated Training of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Cell Segmentation.
Sadanandan Sajith Kecheril SK Ranefall Petter P Le Guyader Sylvie S Wählby Carolina C
Scientific reports 20170810 1
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) have recently emerged as superior for many image segmentation tasks. The DCNN performance is however heavily dependent on the availability of large amounts of problem-specific training samples. Here we show that DCNNs trained on ground truth created automatically using fluorescently labeled cells, perform similar to manual annotations. ...[more]
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