Title
Multiscale Kernels for Enhanced U-shaped Network to Improve 3D Neuron Tracing
Abstract
Digital neuron morphology reconstruction from three-dimensional (3D) volumetric optical microscope images is an important procedure to rebuild the connections and structures of neural circuits. Even though many approaches have been proposed to achieve precise tracing, it is still a challenging task especially when images are polluted by noise or have discontinuity in their neuron structures. In this paper, we propose a new framework to overcome these issues by performing neuron segmentation prior to tracing. Our proposed framework adopts a novel 3D U-shaped convolutional neural network (CNN) with multiscale kernel fusion and spatial fusion to perform the image segmentation. We then perform the iterative back-tracking tracing algorithm on the output of the network. Evaluated on the Janelia dataset from the BigNeuron project, our proposed framework achieves competitive tracing performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00144
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2160-7508
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heng Wang1279282.10
Donghao Zhang2368.73
Yang Song337953.25
Siqi Liu410815.57
Heng Huang53080203.21
mei chen65314.08
Hanchuan Peng73930182.27
Weidong Cai893886.65