DeepMIB: User-friendly and open-source software for training of deep learning network for biological image segmentation.

Journal: PLoS computational biology
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Abstract

We present DeepMIB, a new software package that is capable of training convolutional neural networks for segmentation of multidimensional microscopy datasets on any workstation. We demonstrate its successful application for segmentation of 2D and 3D electron and multicolor light microscopy datasets with isotropic and anisotropic voxels. We distribute DeepMIB as both an open-source multi-platform Matlab code and as compiled standalone application for Windows, MacOS and Linux. It comes in a single package that is simple to install and use as it does not require knowledge of programming. DeepMIB is suitable for everyone interested of bringing a power of deep learning into own image segmentation workflows.

Authors

  • Ilya Belevich
    Electron Microscopy Unit, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Eija Jokitalo
    Electron Microscopy Unit, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.