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Crowdsourcing the creation of image segmentation algorithms for connectomics

Author(s): Arganda-Carreras, Ignacio; Turaga, Srinivas C; Berger, Daniel R; Cireşan, Dan; Giusti, Alessandro; et al

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Abstract: To stimulate progress in automating the reconstruction of neural circuits, we organized the first international challenge on 2D segmentation of electron microscopic (EM) images of the brain. Participants submitted boundary maps predicted for a test set of images, and were scored based on their agreement with a consensus of human expert annotations. The winning team had no prior experience with EM images, and employed a convolutional network. This “deep learning” approach has since become accepted as a standard for segmentation of EM images. The challenge has continued to accept submissions, and the best so far has resulted from cooperation between two teams. The challenge has probably saturated, as algorithms cannot progress beyond limits set by ambiguities inherent in 2D scoring and the size of the test dataset. Retrospective evaluation of the challenge scoring system reveals that it was not sufficiently robust to variations in the widths of neurite borders. We propose a solution to this problem, which should be useful for a future 3D segmentation challenge.
Publication Date: 2015
Citation: Arganda-Carreras, Ignacio, Srinivas C. Turaga, Daniel R. Berger, Dan Cireşan, Alessandro Giusti, Luca M. Gambardella, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Dmitry Laptev, Sarvesh Dwivedi, Joachim M. Buhmann, Ting Liu, Mojtaba Seyedhosseini, Tolga Tasdizen, Lee Kamentsky, Radim Burget, Vaclav Uher, Xiao Tan, Changming Sun, Tuan D. Pham, Erhan Bas, Mustafa G. Uzunbas, Albert Cardona, Johannes Schindelin, and H. Sebastian Seung. "Crowdsourcing the creation of image segmentation algorithms for connectomics." Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 9 (2015): 142:1-13. doi:10.3389/fnana.2015.00142
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00142
EISSN: 1662-5129
Pages: 142:1 - 13
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Version: Final published version. This is an open access article.
Notes: Supplementary Material: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnana.2015.00142



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