Light microscopy combined with well-established protocols of two-dimensional cell culture facilitates high-throughput quantitative imaging to study biological phenomena. Accurate segmentation of individual cells in images enables exploration of complex biological questions, but can require sophisticated imaging processing pipelines in cases of low contrast and high object density. Deep learning-based methods are considered state-of-the-art for image segmentation but typically require vast amounts of annotated data, for which there is no suitable resource available in the field of label-free cellular imaging. Here, we present LIVECell, a large, high-quality, manually annotated and expert-validated dataset of phase-contrast images, consisting of over 1.6 million cells from a diverse set of cell morphologies and culture densities. To further demonstrate its use, we train convolutional neural network-based models using LIVECell and evaluate model segmentation accuracy with a proposed a suite of benchmarks.
@article{pub11814,
author = {
Edlund, Christoffer
and
Jackson, Timothy R.
and
Khalid, Nabeel
and
Bevan, Nicola
and
Dale, Timothy
and
Dengel, Andreas
and
Ahmed, Sheraz
and
Trygg, Johan
and
Sjögren, Rickard
},
title = {LIVECell—A large-scale dataset for label-free live cell segmentation},
year = {2021},
month = {8},
volume = {None},
pages = {1--8},
journal = {Nature Research},
publisher = {Nature Methods}
}
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence