DDeep3M-based neuronal cell counting in 2D large-scale images

Xianghan Kong; Shuai Yan; Enze Zhou; Jin Huang; Xinglong Wu; Ping Wang; Shangbin Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2537797

20 November 2019 DDeep3M-based neuronal cell counting in 2D large-scale images

Xianghan Kong, Shuai Yan, Enze Zhou, Jin Huang, Xinglong Wu, Ping Wang, Shangbin Chen

Proceedings Volume 11190, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics IX; 1119037 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2537797
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2019, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

The number of neuronal cells is fundamentally important for brain functions. However, it can be difficult to obtain the accurate number of neuronal cells in large-scale brain imaging, which is nearly inevitable with traditional image segmentation techniques due to the low contrast and noisy background. Here, we introduce a Docker-based deep convolutional neural network (DDeep3M) for better counting neurons in the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy images. To reconcile the memory limit of computational resource, a high-resolution 2D SRS image of whole coronal slice of mouse brain is divided into multiple patch images. Each patch image is then fed into the DDeep3M and predicted as a probability map. A higher contrast image targeting neurons (i.e. the predicted image) can be acquired by stitching the patches of probability map together. With this routine segmentation method applied in both raw SRS image and the predicted image, the DDeep3M achieves the accuracy of over 0.96 for cell counting which is much better than the result of traditional segmentation methods. Compared with the U-Net, which is one of the most popular deep learning networks for medical image segmentation, DDeep3M demonstrates a better result when handling such large-scale image. Thus, DDeep3M can be really helpful for large-scale cell counting in brain research.

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Xianghan Kong, Shuai Yan, Enze Zhou, Jin Huang, Xinglong Wu, Ping Wang, and Shangbin Chen "DDeep3M-based neuronal cell counting in 2D large-scale images", Proc. SPIE 11190, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics IX, 1119037 (20 November 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2537797

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