StarDist
github.com/stardist/stardistDeep learning-based object detection and segmentation for star-convex shapes, widely adopted for cell and nucleus segmentation in fluorescence and electron microscopy via a compact neural network architecture with non-maximum suppression and shape-based post-processing (Nature Methods 2020, 1.2K+ stars)
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- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/stardist/stardist
- GitHub — github.com/stardist/stardist
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