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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

NucleoNet and DropNet: Generalist deep learning models for instance segmentation of nuclei and lipid droplets from electron microscopy images.

Abhishek Bhardwaj, Chris W Dell, Melissa R Mikolaj, Helen Spiers, Adam Harned, Balamurugan Kuppusamy, Peng Liu, Donglai Wei, Esta Sterneck, Kedar Narayan

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Abhishek BhardwajCCR Volume Electron Microscopy (CVEM), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Chris W DellCCR Volume Electron Microscopy (CVEM), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-2642-5393
Melissa R MikolajCCR Volume Electron Microscopy (CVEM), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5452-1683
Helen SpiersThe Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7748-7935
Adam HarnedCCR Volume Electron Microscopy (CVEM), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Balamurugan KuppusamyLaboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling; Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6010-080X
Peng LiuDept of Computer Science, Boston College, Boston MS 02467 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5437-1294
Donglai WeiDept of Computer Science, Boston College, Boston MS 02467 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2329-5484
Esta SterneckLaboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling; Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7716-8766
Kedar NarayanCCR Volume Electron Microscopy (CVEM), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7982-6494

Funding

WORK ORDER 126643 B539 EXPAND IC SUITE75N91019D00024 · NIAID · LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INC. · PI BRISCOE, LYNN · 2019 to 2025
$3932.6M
NIH HHS 75N91019D00024
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Abstract

Automating cellular organelle segmentation is key to increasing the throughput in electron microscopy (EM) and volume EM (vEM) workflows. Deep learning (DL) has accelerated this process, but model development has predominately centered on mitochondria, partly because of a scarcity of suitable training datasets for other features. Here, we crowdsourced the manual step of labeling nuclei and lipid droplets (LDs) from complex cellular EM images and trained Panoptic DeepLab (PDL) models on these large, heterogenous annotated datasets as well as on publicly available vEM datasets.

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PMCPMC13060279

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