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Instance segmentation of mitochondria in electron microscopy images with a generalist deep learning model trained on a diverse dataset.

In Cell systems

Mitochondria are extremely pleomorphic organelles. Automatically annotating each one accurately and precisely in any 2D or volume electron microscopy (EM) image is an unsolved computational challenge. Current deep learning-based approaches train models on images that provide limited cellular contexts, precluding generality. To address this, we amassed a highly heterogeneous ∼1.5 × 10⁶ image 2D unlabeled cellular EM dataset and segmented ∼135,000 mitochondrial instances therein. MitoNet, a model trained on these resources, performs well on challenging benchmarks and on previously unseen volume EM datasets containing tens of thousands of mitochondria. We release a Python package and napari plugin, empanada, to rapidly run inference, visualize, and proofread instance segmentations. A record of this paper's transparent peer review process is included in the supplemental information.

Conrad Ryan, Narayan Kedar

2023-Jan-18

benchmark, crowdsourcing, deep learning, electron microscopy, image dataset, mitochondria, panoptic, segmentation, volume EM, volume electron miscroscopy

20 Jan 2023

Instance segmentation of mitochondria in electron microscopy images with a generalist deep learning model trained on a diverse dataset.

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