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Contour proposal networks for biomedical instance segmentation.

Eric Upschulte¹, Stefan Harmeling², Katrin Amunts³

¹Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., Jülich 52428, Germany; Helmholtz AI, Research Centre Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., Jülich 52428, Germany.

Medical Image Analysis

|February 18, 2022

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We introduce the Contour Proposal Network (CPN), a novel framework for object instance segmentation. CPN accurately detects and outlines overlapping objects, outperforming existing methods in cell segmentation tasks.

Keywords:

CPN Cell detection Cell segmentation Object detection

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Image Analysis
Machine Learning

Background:

Object instance segmentation is crucial for analyzing complex visual data.
Existing methods often struggle with overlapping objects and require complex pipelines.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a conceptually simple and effective framework for object instance segmentation.
To enable simultaneous detection and contour fitting of possibly overlapping objects.

Main Methods:

Introduced the Contour Proposal Network (CPN), a single-stage instance segmentation model.
Utilized Fourier Descriptors for fixed-size contour representation.
Integrated state-of-the-art object detection architectures as backbone networks.
Trained the CPN end-to-end for efficient learning.

Main Results:

CPN demonstrated superior instance segmentation accuracy compared to U-Net, Mask R-CNN, and StarDist.
Achieved high performance in cell instance segmentation across different data modalities.
Developed real-time variants of the CPN for time-sensitive applications.
Showcased strong generalization capabilities across diverse cell types and domains.

Conclusions:

CPN offers a robust and versatile solution for object instance segmentation.
The framework's reliance on closed contours makes it broadly applicable beyond biomedical imaging.
The availability of a PyTorch implementation facilitates wider adoption and research.