The Cell Tracking Challenge: 10 years of objective benchmarking
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Nature Methods |
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| Web | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01879-y |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01879-y |
| Keywords | cell segmentation;cell tracking;benchmarking |
| Description | The Cell Tracking Challenge is an ongoing benchmarking initiative that has become a reference in cell segmentation and tracking algorithm development. Here, we present a significant number of improvements introduced in the challenge since our 2017 report. These include the creation of a new segmentation-only benchmark, the enrichment of the dataset repository with new datasets that increase its diversity and complexity, and the creation of a silver standard reference corpus based on the most competitive results, which will be of particular interest for data-hungry deep learning-based strategies. Furthermore, we present the up-to-date cell segmentation and tracking leaderboards, an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the performance of the state-of-the-art methods and the properties of the datasets and annotations, and two novel, insightful studies about the generalizability and the reusability of top-performing methods. These studies provide critical practical conclusions for both developers and users of traditional and machine learning-based cell segmentation and tracking algorithms. |
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