Democratizing Pathological Image Segmentation with Lay Annotators via Molecular-empowered Learning

1 code implementation • 31 May 2023 • Ruining Deng, Yanwei Li, Peize Li, Jiacheng Wang, Lucas W. Remedios, Saydolimkhon Agzamkhodjaev, Zuhayr Asad, Quan Liu, Can Cui, Yaohong Wang, Yihan Wang, Yucheng Tang, Haichun Yang, Yuankai Huo

The contribution of this paper is threefold: (1) We proposed a molecular-empowered learning scheme for multi-class cell segmentation using partial labels from lay annotators; (2) The proposed method integrated Giga-pixel level molecular-morphology cross-modality registration, molecular-informed annotation, and molecular-oriented segmentation model, so as to achieve significantly superior performance via 3 lay annotators as compared with 2 experienced pathologists; (3) A deep corrective learning (learning with imperfect label) method is proposed to further improve the segmentation performance using partially annotated noisy data.

Cell Segmentation Image Segmentation +3