MurineCyto-Det: A High-Resolution Murine BALF Cytology Dataset for Leukocyte Segmentation and Detection
Le, T. X.; Tran, L.-A. T.; Farabi, D. A.; Wang, S.; Phan, A. T. Q.; Cormier, S. A.; Taada, A.; McGrew, D.; Du, Y.; Vu, L. D.
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Automated analysis of murine bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) cytology is important for preclinical respiratory research, yet progress has been limited by the lack of publicly available, well-annotated mouse BALF image datasets. We present MurineCyto-Det, a high-resolution murine BALF cytology dataset comprising 333 image tiles of size 1024x1024 pixels, annotated across five cytological categories with both pixel-level segmentation masks and one-to-one matched bounding boxes. The dataset contains 14,551 annotated cell instances and supports two complementary analysis tasks: morphology-oriented cell segmentation and object-level cell detection. To establish reproducible benchmark baselines, we evaluated representative segmentation and detection models. The results demonstrate the practical utility of MurineCyto-Det while highlighting realistic challenges arising from class imbalance, small object size, irregular cell morphology, and ambiguous debris-like structures. MurineCyto-Det provides a standardized resource for developing, evaluating, and comparing automated methods for murine BALF cytology analysis. The dataset is publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17608677.
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