Title
Anisotropic EM Segmentation by 3D Affinity Learning and Agglomeration.
Abstract
The field of connectomics has recently produced neuron wiring diagrams from relatively large brain regions from multiple animals. Most of these neural reconstructions were computed from isotropic (e.g., FIBSEM) or near isotropic (e.g., SBEM) data. In spite of the remarkable progress on algorithms in recent years, automatic dense reconstruction from anisotropic data remains a challenge for the connectomics community. One significant hurdle in the segmentation of anisotropic data is the difficulty in generating a suitable initial over-segmentation. In this study, we present a segmentation method for anisotropic EM data that agglomerates a 3D over-segmentation computed from the 3D affinity prediction. A 3D U-net is trained to predict 3D affinities by the MALIS approach. Experiments on multiple datasets demonstrates the strength and robustness of the proposed method for anisotropic EM segmentation.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Isotropy,Connectomics,Economies of agglomeration,Anisotropy,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1707.08935
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Toufiq Parag1527.18
Fabian Tschopp230.73
William Grisaitis330.73
Srinivas C. Turaga412723.75
Xuewen Zhang501.35
Brian Matejek6123.54
Lee Kamentsky7263.23
Jeff W. Lichtman813412.41
Hanspeter Pfister95933340.59