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Information × Registration Number 2123U011180, Article popup.category Препринт Title Accurate Whole Cell Instance Segmentation from Brightfield Images (AI translated) popup.author Prytula YaroslavPrytula Yaroslav popup.publication 01-01-2023 popup.source_user Український католицький університет popup.source https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14570/4406 popup.publisher Description Semantic and instance segmentations have revolutionized biomedical image anal- ysis, playing a crucial role in numerous biological applications. The development of accurate segmentation pipelines has enabled fast and reliable image analysis. Pre- vious state-of-the-art methods in cellular biology rely on accurate cell segmentation without preserving knowledge of overlapping instances. In this work, we first show that extending the model by introducing multiple decoupled decoders for multi-task learning greatly helps in scene understanding and results in high-fidelity segmen- tations. Furthermore, we identify cases of overlap occurrence and construct prob- ability maps based on cell spatial proximity. Additionally, to overcome the lack of annotated samples, we introduce a way to synthesize brightfield images and show that applying overlap-aware weight maps directly to the loss function guides the model to attend to regions of occluded cells, thus improving segmentation perfor- mance. We then propose an approach to extend our model to perform instance seg- mentation. Compared to previous state-of-the-art approaches, we utilize a concep- tually novel method of learning instance activation maps that highlight informa- tive regions for different cells for global awareness. Without bells and whistles, we combine multi-task learning with overlap awareness for instance segmentation, and show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results. popup.nrat_date 2025-11-05 Close