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Informatics Institute faculty member Behçet Uğur Töreyin coauthored paper titled 'Improved cell segmentation using deep learning in label-free optical microscopy images' has been published in 'Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences'. 

DOI: 10.3906/elk-2105-244 (This number will become active after the manuscript has been selected for inclusion in an issue.)

Abstract:

The recently popular deep neural networks (DNNs) have a significant effect on the improvement of seg- mentation accuracy from various perspectives, including robustness and completeness in comparison to conventional methods. We determined that the naive U-Net has some lacks in specific perspectives and there is high potential for further enhancements on the model. Therefore, we employed some modifications in different folds of the U-Net to overcome this problem. Based on the probable opportunity for improvement, we develop a novel architecture by us- ing an alternative feature extractor in the encoder of U-Net and replacing the plain blocks with residual blocks in the decoder. This alteration makes the model superconvergent yielding improved performance results on two challenging optical microscopy image series: a phase-contrast dataset of our own (MDA-MB-231) and a brightfield dataset from a well-known challenge (DSB2018). We utilized the U-Net with pretrained ResNet-18 as the encoder for the segmentation task. Hence, following the modifications, we redesign a novel skip-connection to reduce the semantic gap between the encoder and the decoder. The proposed skip-connection increases the accuracy of the model on both datasets. The proposed segmentation approach results in Jaccard Index values of 85.0% and 89.2% on the DSB2018 and MDA-MB-231 datasets, respectively. The results reveal that our method achieves competitive results compared to the state-of-the-art approaches and surpasses the performance of baseline approaches.
    Improved Cell Segmentation-1

    Date 11 Oct 2021

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    • List of Most Influential Scientists; Associate Professor. B. Uğur Töreyin (article by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack and J. Baas published in the journal PLOS Biology)
    • Beltus Nkwawir Wiysobunri, the best project award in the Science category, in the 2020 International Students Project Competition
    • Argenit company, of which Dr. Abdulkerim Çapar is among the founding partners, received the "National-International Supports" First Prize of ITU ARI Teknokent.
    • TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Project Competition in Priority Areas: Istanbul region first place - Ahmet Burak Özyurt
    • Best Presentation Award at ICAT'18 Conference: Sena Efsun Cebeci, 2018
    • Tubitak Incentive Award; 2016 Assoc. Prof. Adem Tekin
    • “Technical Paper” and “Willis H. Carrier” Award by the American Heating, Cooling and Air Conditioning Association; 2016 Assist. Prof. Dr. H. Salih Erden
    • Science Heroes Association Young Scientist of the Year Award; 2016 Assoc. B. Uğur Töreyin Best Poster Award at PRACEdays 2016 conference; Samet Demir
    • ITU Most Successful Thesis Award; 2016 Hatice Gokcan

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