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ArticleGenome biology2023

GeneSegNet: a deep learning framework for cell segmentation by integrating gene expression and imaging.

Yuxing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Dongfang Liu, Wenpin Hou, Tianfei Zhou, Zhicheng Ji

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Article in Genome biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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  20. A systematic evaluation of computational methods for cell segmentation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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6 authors.

Yuxing Wang *Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.
Wenguan Wang *The ReLER Lab from the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Dongfang Liu *Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.
Wenpin HouDepartment of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, USA.
Tianfei ZhouComputer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. ztfei.debug@gmail.com.
Zhicheng JiDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA. zhicheng.ji@duke.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When analyzing data from in situ RNA detection technologies, cell segmentation is an essential step in identifying cell boundaries, assigning RNA reads to cells, and studying the gene expression and morphological features of cells. We developed a deep-learning-based method, GeneSegNet, that integrates both gene expression and imaging information to perform cell segmentation. GeneSegNet also employs a recursive training strategy to deal with noisy training labels. We show that GeneSegNet significantly improves cell segmentation performances over existing methods that either ignore gene expression information or underutilize imaging information.

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Deep LearningGene ExpressionImage Processing, Computer-AssistedRNATomography, X-Ray ComputedRNACell segmentationDeep learningIn situ hybridizationSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID37858204
PMCPMC10585768

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