QCell is a query‑based model designed to improve overlapping cell instance segmentation in microscopy images. It introduces an instance recombination module that decomposes and recombines query representations in latent space, allowing the model to reason about entire cell structures even when they overlap. Additionally, a contrastive query alignment objective is used to learn distinctive instance features and separate overlapping cell queries. The authors also present a new Organoid dataset benchmark and demonstrate that QCell surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving +2.2 AP and +2.7 AJI on the ISBI2014 benchmark.
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.
arXiv:2609.21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) plays a critical role in robotic assistance and surgical workflow analysis. However, most existing SIS methods f...
The paper introduces an end‑to‑end framework for detecting and classifying cells in pathology images by jointly modeling visual features and instance‑level interactions. It employs a dynamic graph construction module that builds cell graphs from learnable queries and an instance‑aware graph network that filters and reorganizes features, integrating appearance and relational evidence. Experiments on multiple staining protocols show the method surpasses existing approaches in both detection and classification accuracy.
arXiv:2410.07421v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Instance segmentation is a core computer vision task with great practical significance. Recent advances, driven by large-scale benchmark datasets,...
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...
arXiv:2609.36429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting gene expression from H&E-stained histology images offers a scalable alternative to costly spatial transcriptomics, yet most existing methods...
Scene-Q is a confidence‑aware, coarse‑to‑fine querying framework for indoor mobile robots that grounds natural‑language queries in a 3D map. It normalizes encoder scores with temperature scaling and only invokes a reasoning VLM for low‑confidence cases, while high‑confidence queries are answered by fast retrieval. The method improves open‑vocabulary 3D instance segmentation on ScanNet200 and natural‑language 3D instance retrieval on real‑world reconstructions, especially for spatial and relational queries, while maintaining a substantial fraction of queries on the fast path.
arXiv:2602. 10045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current instance segmentation models achieve high performance on average predictions, but lack principled uncertainty quantification: their outputs are not calibrated, and there is no guarantee that a predicted mask is close to the ground truth.
arXiv:2607. 22712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell light microscopy images have become an important data source for characterizing cell phenotypes, but their complexity and heterogeneity pose challenges to high-throughput automated analysis.
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic understanding but remain unreliable in metric spatial reasoning, particularly when queries require comparing multiple instances of the same object category. We study this problem through the Closest-Instance Distance Query (CIDQ), where a model must identify the nearest visible candidate to a unique reference object and estimate their gravity-aligned floor-plane distance.
arXiv:2609.28222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified 3D vision-language systems must combine complementary geometry, scale, and appearance cues while supporting tasks from instance segmentation to...
arXiv:2608.30003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prototypical part-based models provide explainable predictions by comparing input regions to learned prototypes. However, current approaches are burden...