The Cell Tracking Challenge: 10 years of objective benchmarking

Abstract

The Cell Tracking Challenge is an ongoing benchmarking initiative that has become a reference in cell segmentation and tracking algorithm development. Here, we present a significant number of improvements introduced in the challenge since our 2017 report. These include the creation of a new segmentation-only benchmark, the enrichment of the dataset repository with new datasets that increase its diversity and complexity, and the creation of a silver standard reference corpus based on the most competitive results, which will be of particular interest for data-hungry deep learning-based strategies. Furthermore, we present the up-to-date cell segmentation and tracking leaderboards, an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the performance of the state-of-the-art methods and the properties of the datasets and annotations, and two novel, insightful studies about the generalizability and the reusability of top-performing methods. These studies provide critical practical conclusions for both developers and users of traditional and machine learning-based cell segmentation and tracking algorithms.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 18, 2023
Source ID
10.1038/s41592-023-01879-y

Entities

People

  • Ainhoa Urbiola
  • Alexandre Cunha
  • Andrew R. Cohen
  • Arrate Muñoz Barrutia
  • Assaf Arbelle
  • Carlos Ortiz de Solórzano
  • Cristina Ederra
  • Elliot Meyerowitz
  • Erik Meijering
  • Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal
  • Fabian Isensee
  • Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña
  • Filip Lux
  • Gani Rahmon
  • Imad Eddine Toubal
  • Jan P. Allebach
  • Kannappan Palaniappan
  • Katharina Löffler
  • Klas E G Magnusson
  • Klaus H. Maier-hein
  • Ko Sugawara
  • Layton Aho
  • Martin Maška
  • Michal Kozubek
  • Noor M. Al-shakarji
  • Pablo Delgado-Rodriguez
  • Paul F. Jäger
  • Petr Matula
  • Ralf Mikut
  • Rina Bao
  • Tal Ben-haim
  • Tammy Riklin Raviv
  • Tereza Nečasová
  • Tianqi Guo
  • Tim Scherr
  • Tsang Ing Ren
  • Vladimír Ulman
  • Yanming Zhu
  • Yin Wang

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML