Gland Instance Segmentation Using Deep Multichannel Neural Networks.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A new image instance segmentation method is proposed to segment individual glands (instances) in colon histology images. This process is challenging since the glands not only need to be segmented from a complex background, they must also be individually identified.

Authors

  • Yan Xu
    Department of Nephrology, Suzhou Ninth People's Hospital, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
  • Yang Li
    Occupation of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
  • Yipei Wang
  • Mingyuan Liu
  • Yubo Fan
    State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beihang University, Beijing, China. yubofan@buaa.edu.cn.
  • Maode Lai
  • Eric I-Chao Chang
    Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. eric.chang@microsoft.com.