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ArticleMicroscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada2024

Evaluating the Quality of Serial EM Sections with Deep Learning.

Mahsa Bank Tavakoli, Josh L Morgan

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Article in Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mahsa Bank TavakoliDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Josh L MorganDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2657-2416

Funding

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CENTER VISION RESEARCHP30EY002687 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Philip Raymond Williams · 1985 to 2026
$18.4M
Development and function of glomerular microcircuits in the visual thalamusR01EY029313 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MORGAN, JOSHUA L · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY002687NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029313NIH HHS 5R01EY029313-05Research to Prevent Blindness
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated image acquisition can significantly improve the throughput of serial section scanning electron microscopy (ssSEM). However, image quality can vary from image to image depending on autofocusing and beam stigmation. Automatically evaluating the quality of images is, therefore, important for efficiently generating high-quality serial section scanning electron microscopy (ssSEM) datasets. We tested several convolutional neural networks for their ability to reproduce user-generated evaluations of ssSEM image quality. We found that a modification of ResNet-50 that we term quality evaluation Network (QEN) reliably predicts user-generated quality scores. Running QEN in parallel to ssSEM image acquisition therefore allows users to quickly identify imaging problems and flag images for retaking. We have publicly shared the Python code for evaluating images with QEN, the code for training QEN, and the training dataset.

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convolutional neural networks (CNNs)deep learningimage quality evaluationserial section scanning electron microscopy (ssSEM)

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PMID38701183
PMCPMC11223646

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