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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2025

Robust consensus nuclear and cell segmentation.

Melis O Irfan, Eduardo A González-Solares, Tristan Whitmarsh, Alireza Molaeinezhad, Mohammad Al Sa'd, Claire M Mulvey, Marta Páez Ribes, Atefeh Fatemi, Dario Bressan, Nicholas A Walton

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2025. 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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Melis O IrfanInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Eduardo A González-SolaresInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Tristan WhitmarshInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Alireza MolaeinezhadInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Mohammad Al Sa'dInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Claire M MulveyCRUK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Marta Páez RibesCRUK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Atefeh FatemiCRUK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Dario BressanCRUK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Nicholas A WaltonInstitute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Cell segmentation is a crucial step in numerous biomedical imaging endeavors-so much so that the community is flooded with publicly available, state-of-the-art segmentation techniques ready for out-of-the-box use. Assessing the strengths and limitations of each method on a tissue sample set and then selecting the optimal method for each research objective and input image are time-consuming and exacting tasks that often monopolize the resources of biologists, biochemists, immunologists, and pathologists, despite not being the primary goal of their research projects. In this work, we present a segmentation software wrapper, coined CellSampler, which runs a selection of established segmentation methods and then combines their individual segmentation masks into a single optimized mask. This so-called "uber mask" selects the best of the established masks across local neighborhoods within the image, where both the neighborhood size and the statistical measure used to define what qualifies as "best" are user-defined.

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bioinformaticscomputer visionimaging mass cytometrymultiplexed imagingsingle-cell segmentation

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