arXiv:2609.23019v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Soma instance segmentation, i.e., identifying and delineating individual cell somas as distinct instances, is crucial for cellular analysis and conne...
By Mohammad Khateri, Morteza Ghahremani, Jussi Tohka, Alejandra Sierra
The paper presents a 3D foundation model for light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSM) that is pretrained on a large curated set of 3D images from various organisms, stains, and imaging protocols. By jointly optimizing for masked reconstruction and image‑text alignment, the model learns transferable volumetric representations that dramatically reduce the need for annotated data. The pretrained backbone enables efficient few‑shot adaptation to downstream tasks such as segmentation, classification, and deblurring, consistently outperforming baselines according to standard metrics and expert evaluation.
By Adina Scheinfeld, Haotan Zhang, Shang Mu, Rudolf L. M. van Herten, Lucas Stoffl, Ali Erturk, Zhuhao Wu, Johannes C. Paetzold
arXiv:2608. 07575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Confocal microscopy of optically cleared and swelled tissue resolves complex biological structures in 3D, but such acquisitions are highly anisotropic: along the under-sampled axial direction the structure can appear discontinuous, hampering reconstruction and automated quantitative analysis.
By Arash Fatehi, Robin Ebbestad, Linus Butt, Hans Blom, Sigrid Lundberg, Hannes Olauson, Hjalmar Brismar, David Unnersj\"o-Jess, Thomas Benzing, Katarzyna Bozek
arXiv:2606. 23964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning in fluorescence microscopy often relies on 2D projections, despite the inherently three-dimensional nature of cells.
By Amirhossein Kardoost, Lion Gleiter, Tingying Peng, Carsten Marr
arXiv:2507. 04704v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding how cellular morphology, gene expression, and spatial context jointly shape tissue function is a central challenge in biology.
By Zhenglun Kong, Mufan Qiu, John Boesen, Xiang Lin, Sukwon Yun, Tianlong Chen, Manolis Kellis, Marinka Zitnik
DMT‑Dens is a parametric manifold‑visualization technique that uses a latent‑token Transformer encoder to produce two‑dimensional embeddings of high‑dimensional biological data. It preserves sampling density by aligning rank‑based manifold structures and optimizing a Pearson‑correlation loss on k‑nearest‑neighbor log‑radius estimates. Benchmark tests show that DMT‑Dens maintains density fidelity while achieving competitive label separability on biological datasets.
By Ruizhe Wang, Yixuan Dong, Bolin Yang, Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling, Fuji Yang, Zelin Zang
Pix2Rep-v2 is a self‑supervised learning framework that learns pixel‑ and voxel‑level representations for dense medical imaging tasks, using a redundancy‑reduction objective and equivariance principles to scale to 3D and wide field‑of‑view data. The method is evaluated on four datasets across multiple modalities, tasks, and backbones, demonstrating higher data‑efficiency in few‑shot scenarios and competitive performance, such as a +9.3 Dice point improvement in one‑shot segmentation on the M&Ms‑2 dataset. An in‑context dense prototype approach is also proposed, eliminating the need for downstream training.
By S. Sifaoui, E. Angelini, S. Toupin, T. Pezel, L. Le Folgoc
arXiv:2603. 13377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features.
By Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio
arXiv:2608. 16810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying and representing object instances such as cells or nuclei is a common task in microscopy image analysis.
By Ziwen Liu, Martin Weigert
Atelier is a self‑supervised framework that uses a transformer‑based hypernetwork to generate implicit neural representations (INRs) for cryo‑EM maps, enabling efficient, scale‑agnostic, coordinate‑conditioned feature extraction. Trained on 5,439 maps from the Electron Microscopy Data Bank, the pretrained INR provides continuous local feature fields that can be used as auxiliary channels for a 3D nested U‑Net, improving voxel‑level property prediction across eight tasks compared to a volume‑only baseline. The approach demonstrates that amortized INRs can serve as a geometry‑aware primitive for large‑scale cryo‑EM analysis.
By Phillip Lo, Sudarshan Babu, Dari Kimanius, Aly A. Khan
arXiv:2609.10456v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Nanoscale imaging of mammalian brains is critical for connectomics. X-ray laminography enables high-throughput imaging of extended, plate-like biologic...
By Wenxuan Fang, Abraham L. Levitan, Ana Diaz, Carles Bosch, Adrian Wanner, Andreas T. Schaefer, Mirko Holler, Tomas Aidukas, Nicholas W. Phillips, Yuxin Zhang, Alexandra Pacureanu, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Luis Barba
The paper introduces CARNIVAL, a model for protein annotation in cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) volumes that leverages simulated data and a forward model to generate domain‑specific augmented paired views for self‑supervised training. By incorporating simulation‑derived protein positions and identities into the architecture and loss function, the model localises semantic information at protein locations. CARNIVAL is evaluated on real tomograms without finetuning and outperforms a state‑of‑the‑art contrastive model that lacks forward‑model paired views or privileged information.
By Bogdan Toader, Kiarash Jamali, Tanmay A. M. Bharat, Sjors H. W. Scheres