Condensed U-Net (CU-Net): An Improved U-Net Architecture for Cell Segmentation Powered by 4x4 Max-Pooling Layers

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Authors

AKBAS Cem Emre KOZUBEK Michal

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9098351
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098351
Keywords Biomedical Image Segmentation; Convolutional Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Feature Learning; Max Pooling
Description Recently, the U-Net has been the dominant approach in the cell segmentation task in biomedical images due to its success in a wide range of image recognition tasks. However, recent studies did not focus enough on updating the architecture of the U-Net and designing specialized loss functions for bioimage segmentation. We show that the U-Net architecture can achieve more successful results with efficient architectural improvements. We propose a condensed encoder-decoder scheme that employs the 4x4 max-pooling operation and triple convolutional layers. The proposed network architecture is trained using a novel combined loss function specifically designed for bioimage segmentation. On the benchmark datasets from the Cell Tracking Challenge, the experimental results show that the proposed cell segmentation system outperforms the U-Net.
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