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A Learning-Based Formulation of Parametric Curve Fitting for Bioimage Analysis

Mandal, S.; Uhlmann, V.

2020-01-11 bioinformatics
10.1101/2020.01.10.901702 bioRxiv
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Parametric curve models are convenient to describe and quantitatively characterize the contour of objects in bioimages. Unfortunately, designing algorithms to fit smoothly such models onto image data classically requires significant domain expertise. Here, we propose a convolutional neural network-based approach to predict a continuous parametric representation of the outline of biological objects. We successfully apply our method on the Kaggle 2018 Data Science Bowl dataset composed of a varied collection of images of cell nuclei. This work is a first step towards user-friendly bioimage analysis tools that extract continuously-defined representations of objects.

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