LKCell: Efficient Cell Nuclei Instance Segmentation with Large Convolution Kernels

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Autori principali: Cui, Ziwei, Yao, Jingfeng, Zeng, Lunbin, Yang, Juan, Liu, Wenyu, Wang, Xinggang
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author Cui, Ziwei
Yao, Jingfeng
Zeng, Lunbin
Yang, Juan
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
author_facet Cui, Ziwei
Yao, Jingfeng
Zeng, Lunbin
Yang, Juan
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
contents The segmentation of cell nuclei in tissue images stained with the blood dye hematoxylin and eosin (H$\&$E) is essential for various clinical applications and analyses. Due to the complex characteristics of cellular morphology, a large receptive field is considered crucial for generating high-quality segmentation. However, previous methods face challenges in achieving a balance between the receptive field and computational burden. To address this issue, we propose LKCell, a high-accuracy and efficient cell segmentation method. Its core insight lies in unleashing the potential of large convolution kernels to achieve computationally efficient large receptive fields. Specifically, (1) We transfer pre-trained large convolution kernel models to the medical domain for the first time, demonstrating their effectiveness in cell segmentation. (2) We analyze the redundancy of previous methods and design a new segmentation decoder based on large convolution kernels. It achieves higher performance while significantly reducing the number of parameters. We evaluate our method on the most challenging benchmark and achieve state-of-the-art results (0.5080 mPQ) in cell nuclei instance segmentation with only 21.6% FLOPs compared with the previous leading method. Our source code and models are available at https://github.com/hustvl/LKCell.
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spellingShingle LKCell: Efficient Cell Nuclei Instance Segmentation with Large Convolution Kernels
Cui, Ziwei
Yao, Jingfeng
Zeng, Lunbin
Yang, Juan
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The segmentation of cell nuclei in tissue images stained with the blood dye hematoxylin and eosin (H$\&$E) is essential for various clinical applications and analyses. Due to the complex characteristics of cellular morphology, a large receptive field is considered crucial for generating high-quality segmentation. However, previous methods face challenges in achieving a balance between the receptive field and computational burden. To address this issue, we propose LKCell, a high-accuracy and efficient cell segmentation method. Its core insight lies in unleashing the potential of large convolution kernels to achieve computationally efficient large receptive fields. Specifically, (1) We transfer pre-trained large convolution kernel models to the medical domain for the first time, demonstrating their effectiveness in cell segmentation. (2) We analyze the redundancy of previous methods and design a new segmentation decoder based on large convolution kernels. It achieves higher performance while significantly reducing the number of parameters. We evaluate our method on the most challenging benchmark and achieve state-of-the-art results (0.5080 mPQ) in cell nuclei instance segmentation with only 21.6% FLOPs compared with the previous leading method. Our source code and models are available at https://github.com/hustvl/LKCell.
title LKCell: Efficient Cell Nuclei Instance Segmentation with Large Convolution Kernels
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18054