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| author | Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D |
| author_facet | Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D |
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| contents | Hierarchical YOLO-SAM: A Scalable Pipeline for Automated Segmentation and Morphometric Tracking of Coral Recruits in Time-Series Microscopy. Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D Anthozoa Animals Microscopy Coral Reefs Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Ecosystem Deep Learning Algorithms Coral reef ecosystems are declining rapidly due to climate change, disease, and anthropogenic stressors, driving the expansion of land-based coral propagation for reef restoration. A major bottleneck in these efforts is the manual measurement of coral recruit tissue area from microscopy images, which requires 2-7 min per image and limits scalability. We present a hierarchical deep learning pipeline that automates this measurement by integrating YOLO-based detection with Segment Anything Model (SAM) segmentation. YOLO localizes recruits and classifies them by developmental stage; stage-specific fine-tuned SAM models then segment live tissue using bounding box and background point prompts to suppress segmentation leakage and improve boundary precision. Surface area is computed directly from the segmented masks using pixel size extracted from image metadata. The pipeline reduces processing time to approximately 3-5 s per image-a 24-140× speedup over manual tracing. Evaluated on 3668 microscopy images from two national coral research facilities, the system achieves a mean IoU exceeding 95% and an auto-acceptance rate (AAR) of 71.51%, where predicted-to-ground-truth area ratios fall within a ±5% tolerance of expert annotation, substantially reducing manual workload while maintaining measurement reliability across species, developmental stages, and imaging conditions. This workflow addresses a critical bottleneck in restoration research and demonstrates the broader applicability of AI-based image analysis in marine ecology. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Hierarchical YOLO-SAM: A Scalable Pipeline for Automated Segmentation and Morphometric Tracking of Coral Recruits in Time-Series Microscopy. Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D Anthozoa Animals Microscopy Coral Reefs Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Ecosystem Deep Learning Algorithms Hierarchical YOLO-SAM: A Scalable Pipeline for Automated Segmentation and Morphometric Tracking of Coral Recruits in Time-Series Microscopy. Zhao, Richard S Chen, Cuixian Van Horn, Meg Fogarty, Nicole D Anthozoa Animals Microscopy Coral Reefs Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Ecosystem Deep Learning Algorithms Coral reef ecosystems are declining rapidly due to climate change, disease, and anthropogenic stressors, driving the expansion of land-based coral propagation for reef restoration. A major bottleneck in these efforts is the manual measurement of coral recruit tissue area from microscopy images, which requires 2-7 min per image and limits scalability. We present a hierarchical deep learning pipeline that automates this measurement by integrating YOLO-based detection with Segment Anything Model (SAM) segmentation. YOLO localizes recruits and classifies them by developmental stage; stage-specific fine-tuned SAM models then segment live tissue using bounding box and background point prompts to suppress segmentation leakage and improve boundary precision. Surface area is computed directly from the segmented masks using pixel size extracted from image metadata. The pipeline reduces processing time to approximately 3-5 s per image-a 24-140× speedup over manual tracing. Evaluated on 3668 microscopy images from two national coral research facilities, the system achieves a mean IoU exceeding 95% and an auto-acceptance rate (AAR) of 71.51%, where predicted-to-ground-truth area ratios fall within a ±5% tolerance of expert annotation, substantially reducing manual workload while maintaining measurement reliability across species, developmental stages, and imaging conditions. This workflow addresses a critical bottleneck in restoration research and demonstrates the broader applicability of AI-based image analysis in marine ecology. |
| title | Hierarchical YOLO-SAM: A Scalable Pipeline for Automated Segmentation and Morphometric Tracking of Coral Recruits in Time-Series Microscopy. |
| topic | Anthozoa Animals Microscopy Coral Reefs Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Ecosystem Deep Learning Algorithms |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42076400/ |