Semi-supervised, Topology-Aware Segmentation of Tubular Structures from Live Imaging 3D Microscopy
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Abstract
Motivated by a challenging tubular network segmentation task, this paper tackles two commonly encountered problems in biomedical imaging: Topological consistency of the segmentation, and limited annotations. We propose a topological score which measures both topological and geometric consistency between the predicted and ground truth segmentations, applied for model selection and validation. We apply our topological score in three scenarios: i. a U-net ii. a U-net pretrained on an autoencoder, and iii. a semisupervised U-net architecture, which offers a straightforward approach to jointly training the network both as an autoencoder and a segmentation algorithm. This allows us to utilize un-annotated data for training a representation that generalizes across test data variability, in spite of our annotated training data having very limited variation. Our contributions are validated on a challenging segmentation task, locating tubular structures in the fetal pancreas from noisy live imaging confocal microscopy.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it