RISEC: Rotational Invariant Segmentation of Elongated Cells in SEM Images with Inhomogeneous Illumination

Ali Memariani, Bradley T. Endres, Eugénie Bassères, Kevin W. Garey, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

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Abstract

Detection of Clostridioides difficile cells in scanning electron microscopy images is a challenging task due to the challenges of cell rotation and inhomogeneous illumination. Currently, orientation-invariance in deep ConvNets is achieved by data augmentation. However, training with all possible orientations increases computational complexity. Furthermore, conventional illumination-invariance models include pre-processing illumination normalization steps. However, illumination normalization algorithms remove important texture information which is critical for the analysis of SEM images. In this paper, RISEC (Rotational Invariant Segmentation of Elongated Cells in SEM images with Inhomogeneous Illumination) is proposed to address the challenges of cell rotation and inhomogeneous illumination. First, a generative adversarial network segments the candidate cell regions proposals, addressing the inhomogeneous illumination. Then, the region proposals are passed to two capsule layers where a rotation-invariant shape representation is learned for every cell type via dynamic routing. Our experiments indicate that RISEC outperforms the state of the art models (e.g., CapsNet, and U-net) by at least 11% improving the dice score.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2019, Proceedings
EditorsGeorge Bebis, Bahram Parvin, Richard Boyle, Darko Koracin, Daniela Ushizima, Sek Chai, Shinjiro Sueda, Xin Lin, Aidong Lu, Daniel Thalmann, Chaoli Wang, Panpan Xu
PublisherSpringer
Pages553-563
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030337223
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2019 - Nevada, United States
Duration: Oct 7 2019Oct 9 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11845 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNevada
Period10/7/1910/9/19

Keywords

  • Convolutional capsules
  • Generative adversarial networks
  • Illumination
  • Instance segmentation
  • Orientation-invariance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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