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Introducing YAPiC: An Open Source tool for biologists to perform complex image segmentation with deep learning

Christoph Möhl

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Core Research Facilities, German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn.

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Friday, August 27, 2021

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4:00 AM America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires

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Robust detection of biological structures such as neuronal dendrites in brightfield micrographs, tumor tissue in histological slides, or pathological brain regions in MRI scans is a fundamental task in bio-image analysis. Detection of those structures requests complex decision making which is often impossible with current image analysis software, and therefore typically executed by humans in a tedious and time-consuming manual procedure. Supervised pixel classification based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DNNs) is currently emerging as the most promising technique to solve such complex region detection tasks. Here, a self-learning artificial neural network is trained with a small set of manually annotated images to eventually identify the trained structures from large image data sets in a fully automated way. While supervised pixel classification based on faster machine learning algorithms like Random Forests are nowadays part of the standard toolbox of bio-image analysts (e.g. Ilastik), the currently emerging tools based on deep learning are still rarely used. There is also not much experience in the community how much training data has to be collected, to obtain a reasonable prediction result with deep learning based approaches. Our software YAPiC (Yet Another Pixel Classifier) provides an easy-to-use Python- and command line interface and is purely designed for intuitive pixel classification of multidimensional images with DNNs. With the aim to integrate well in the current open source ecosystem, YAPiC utilizes the Ilastik user interface in combination with a high performance GPU server for model training and prediction. Numerous research groups at our institute have already successfully applied YAPiC for a variety of tasks. From our experience, a surprisingly low amount of sparse label data is needed to train a sufficiently working classifier for typical bioimaging applications. Not least because of this, YAPiC has become the "standard weapon” for our core facility to detect objects in hard-to-segement images. We would like to present some use cases like cell classification in high content screening, tissue detection in histological slides, quantification of neural outgrowth in phase contrast time series, or actin filament detection in transmission electron microscopy.

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MRI scansYAPiCartificial neural networkbio-image analysisdeep learningimage processingimage segmentationmicroscopyneuronal dendritespixel classificationregion detectiontumor tissue

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Christoph Möhl

Dr.

Core Research Facilities, German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn.

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open-neuroscience.com/en/post/yapic/

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