Title
Segmenting Neuronal Structure in 3D Optical Microscope Images via Knowledge Distillation with Teacher-Student Network
Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) volumetric neural image segmentation is crucial to reconstructing accurate neuron structures. However, due to the structural complexity of neurons and the diverse imaging qualities of the microscopes, it is challenging to achieve both accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a teacher-student learning framework for fast neuron segmentation. The segmentation inference is performed using a light-weighted student network which benefits from knowledge distillation of a teacher network with a higher capacity. Evaluated on the Janelia dataset from the BigNeuron project, our proposed framework achieves competitive performance for segmentation accuracy while reducing the computational cost to facilitate large-scale processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759326
2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Teacher-student Network,Knowledge Distillation,Neuronal Image Segmentation,BigNeuron
Computer vision,Market segmentation,Optical microscope,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Inference,Computer science,Image segmentation,Distillation,Microscope,Artificial intelligence
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-5386-3642-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heng Wang1714.89
Donghao Zhang2368.73
Yang Song337953.25
Siqi Liu410815.57
Yue Wang59710.65
David Dagan Feng63329413.76
Hanchuan Peng73930182.27
Weidong Cai893886.65