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Unsupervised cervical cell instance segmentation method integrating cellular characteristics.

Yining Xie¹, Jingling Gao², Xueyan Bi³

¹College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.

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|November 3, 2024

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This study introduces an unsupervised method for segmenting cervical cells, crucial for cancer diagnosis. It leverages nucleus-cytoplasm structure to generate pseudo-labels, improving model training without manual annotation.

Keywords:

Cervical cell segmentation Heatmap perception Multi-angle collaborative segmentation Self-similarity map Unsupervised instance segmentation

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Computational Biology
Computer Vision

Background:

Cell instance segmentation is vital for cervical cancer diagnosis.
Pixel-level annotation for training models is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
Limited annotated data hinders effective model training.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an unsupervised method for cervical cell instance segmentation.
To address the challenge of insufficient annotated data in medical imaging.
To integrate inherent cell characteristics for improved segmentation.

Main Methods:

A dual-flow framework was developed to simultaneously segment nucleus and cytoplasm.
Nucleus segmentation utilized a standard cell-restricted approach.
Cytoplasm segmentation involved a novel multi-angle collaborative method combining self-similarity map iteration and self-supervised heatmap-aware segmentation.
High-quality pseudo-labels were generated by fusing nucleus and cytoplasm segmentation results.
A cyclic training strategy with a loss function encouraged discovery of new object masks.

Main Results:

The proposed unsupervised method achieved notable results in cytoplasm segmentation.
The method obtained Adjusted Jaccard Index (AJI) scores of 54.32% on ISBI, 44.64% on MS_CellSeg, and 66.52% on Cx22 datasets.
Performance surpassed other unsupervised methods evaluated in the study.

Conclusions:

The unsupervised approach effectively segments cervical cells by utilizing nucleus-cytoplasm structural relationships.
The method significantly reduces the reliance on manual pixel-level annotations.
This technique offers a promising solution for training robust cell segmentation models in resource-limited settings.