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Unsupervised temporal consistency improvement for microscopy video segmentation with Siamese networks

Shabanov, A.; Schichler, D.; Pape, C.; Cuylen-Haering, S.; Kreshuk, A.

2021-03-25 bioinformatics
10.1101/2021.03.25.436993 bioRxiv
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We introduce a simple mechanism by which a CNN trained to perform semantic segmentation of individual images can be re-trained - with no additional annotations - to improve its performance for segmentation of videos. We put the segmentation CNN in a Siamese setup with shared weights and train both for segmentation accuracy on annotated images and for segmentation similarity on unlabelled consecutive video frames. Our main application is live microscopy imaging of membrane-less organelles where the fluorescent groundtruth for virtual staining can only be acquired for individual frames. The method is directly applicable to other microscopy modalities, as we demonstrate by experiments on the Cell Segmentation Benchmark. Our code is available at https://github.com/kreshuklab/learning-temporal-consistency.

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