Fast Mitochondria Detection for Connectomics

Vincent Casser, Kai Kang, Hanspeter Pfister, Daniel Haehn
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, PMLR 121:111-120, 2020.

Abstract

High-resolution connectomics data allows for the identification of dysfunctional mitochondria which are linked to a variety of diseases such as autism or bipolar. However, manual analysis is not feasible since datasets can be petabytes in size. We present a fully automatic mitochondria detector based on a modified U-Net architecture that yields high accuracy and fast processing times. We evaluate our method on multiple real-world connectomics datasets, including an improved version of the EPFL mitochondria benchmark. Our results show an Jaccard index of up to 0.90 with inference times lower than 16ms for a $512\times512$px image tile. This speed is faster than the acquisition speed of modern electron microscopes, enabling mitochondria detection in real-time. Our detector ranks first for real-time detection when compared to previous works and data, results, and code are openly available.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v121-casser20a, title = {Fast Mitochondria Detection for Connectomics}, author = {Casser, Vincent and Kang, Kai and Pfister, Hanspeter and Haehn, Daniel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning}, pages = {111--120}, year = {2020}, editor = {Arbel, Tal and Ben Ayed, Ismail and de Bruijne, Marleen and Descoteaux, Maxime and Lombaert, Herve and Pal, Christopher}, volume = {121}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {06--08 Jul}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v121/casser20a/casser20a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v121/casser20a.html}, abstract = {High-resolution connectomics data allows for the identification of dysfunctional mitochondria which are linked to a variety of diseases such as autism or bipolar. However, manual analysis is not feasible since datasets can be petabytes in size. We present a fully automatic mitochondria detector based on a modified U-Net architecture that yields high accuracy and fast processing times. We evaluate our method on multiple real-world connectomics datasets, including an improved version of the EPFL mitochondria benchmark. Our results show an Jaccard index of up to 0.90 with inference times lower than 16ms for a $512\times512$px image tile. This speed is faster than the acquisition speed of modern electron microscopes, enabling mitochondria detection in real-time. Our detector ranks first for real-time detection when compared to previous works and data, results, and code are openly available.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Fast Mitochondria Detection for Connectomics %A Vincent Casser %A Kai Kang %A Hanspeter Pfister %A Daniel Haehn %B Proceedings of the Third Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2020 %E Tal Arbel %E Ismail Ben Ayed %E Marleen de Bruijne %E Maxime Descoteaux %E Herve Lombaert %E Christopher Pal %F pmlr-v121-casser20a %I PMLR %P 111--120 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v121/casser20a.html %V 121 %X High-resolution connectomics data allows for the identification of dysfunctional mitochondria which are linked to a variety of diseases such as autism or bipolar. However, manual analysis is not feasible since datasets can be petabytes in size. We present a fully automatic mitochondria detector based on a modified U-Net architecture that yields high accuracy and fast processing times. We evaluate our method on multiple real-world connectomics datasets, including an improved version of the EPFL mitochondria benchmark. Our results show an Jaccard index of up to 0.90 with inference times lower than 16ms for a $512\times512$px image tile. This speed is faster than the acquisition speed of modern electron microscopes, enabling mitochondria detection in real-time. Our detector ranks first for real-time detection when compared to previous works and data, results, and code are openly available.
APA
Casser, V., Kang, K., Pfister, H. & Haehn, D.. (2020). Fast Mitochondria Detection for Connectomics. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 121:111-120 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v121/casser20a.html.

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