Boosting 3D Neuron Segmentation with 2D Vision Transformer Pre-trained on Natural Images

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Auteurs principaux: Cheng, Yik San, Zhao, Runkai, Wang, Heng, Peng, Hanchuan, Cai, Weidong
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author Cheng, Yik San
Zhao, Runkai
Wang, Heng
Peng, Hanchuan
Cai, Weidong
author_facet Cheng, Yik San
Zhao, Runkai
Wang, Heng
Peng, Hanchuan
Cai, Weidong
contents Neuron reconstruction, one of the fundamental tasks in neuroscience, rebuilds neuronal morphology from 3D light microscope imaging data. It plays a critical role in analyzing the structure-function relationship of neurons in the nervous system. However, due to the scarcity of neuron datasets and high-quality SWC annotations, it is still challenging to develop robust segmentation methods for single neuron reconstruction. To address this limitation, we aim to distill the consensus knowledge from massive natural image data to aid the segmentation model in learning the complex neuron structures. Specifically, in this work, we propose a novel training paradigm that leverages a 2D Vision Transformer model pre-trained on large-scale natural images to initialize our Transformer-based 3D neuron segmentation model with a tailored 2D-to-3D weight transferring strategy. Our method builds a knowledge sharing connection between the abundant natural and the scarce neuron image domains to improve the 3D neuron segmentation ability in a data-efficiency manner. Evaluated on a popular benchmark, BigNeuron, our method enhances neuron segmentation performance by 8.71% over the model trained from scratch with the same amount of training samples.
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spellingShingle Boosting 3D Neuron Segmentation with 2D Vision Transformer Pre-trained on Natural Images
Cheng, Yik San
Zhao, Runkai
Wang, Heng
Peng, Hanchuan
Cai, Weidong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Neuron reconstruction, one of the fundamental tasks in neuroscience, rebuilds neuronal morphology from 3D light microscope imaging data. It plays a critical role in analyzing the structure-function relationship of neurons in the nervous system. However, due to the scarcity of neuron datasets and high-quality SWC annotations, it is still challenging to develop robust segmentation methods for single neuron reconstruction. To address this limitation, we aim to distill the consensus knowledge from massive natural image data to aid the segmentation model in learning the complex neuron structures. Specifically, in this work, we propose a novel training paradigm that leverages a 2D Vision Transformer model pre-trained on large-scale natural images to initialize our Transformer-based 3D neuron segmentation model with a tailored 2D-to-3D weight transferring strategy. Our method builds a knowledge sharing connection between the abundant natural and the scarce neuron image domains to improve the 3D neuron segmentation ability in a data-efficiency manner. Evaluated on a popular benchmark, BigNeuron, our method enhances neuron segmentation performance by 8.71% over the model trained from scratch with the same amount of training samples.
title Boosting 3D Neuron Segmentation with 2D Vision Transformer Pre-trained on Natural Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02686