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ArticlePloS one2015

A context-aware delayed agglomeration framework for electron microscopy segmentation.

Toufiq Parag, Anirban Chakraborty, Stephen Plaza, Louis Scheffer

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Toufiq ParagJanelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Anirban ChakrabortyDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Stephen PlazaJanelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Louis SchefferJanelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electron Microscopy (EM) image (or volume) segmentation has become significantly important in recent years as an instrument for connectomics. This paper proposes a novel agglomerative framework for EM segmentation. In particular, given an over-segmented image or volume, we propose a novel framework for accurately clustering regions of the same neuron. Unlike existing agglomerative methods, the proposed context-aware algorithm divides superpixels (over-segmented regions) of different biological entities into different subsets and agglomerates them separately. In addition, this paper describes a "delayed" scheme for agglomerative clustering that postpones some of the merge decisions, pertaining to newly formed bodies, in order to generate a more confident boundary prediction. We report significant improvements attained by the proposed approach in segmentation accuracy over existing standard methods on 2D and 3D datasets.

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AlgorithmsMicroscopy, Electron

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PMID26018659
PMCPMC4446358

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