InstantDL

InstantDL implements convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, pixel-wise regression, and classification of biomedical images to quantify molecular and cellular structures.


Key Features:

  • Task Coverage: Supports semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, pixel-wise regression, and classification of biomedical images.
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs): Implements CNN-based architectures for image segmentation, regression, and classification tasks.
  • Automation and Standardization: Provides automated and standardized workflows to reduce manual parameter tuning and ensure consistent processing.
  • Uncertainty Assessment: Computes uncertainty estimates for model predictions to inform reliability of results.
  • Performance Benchmarking: Benchmarked on seven publicly available datasets and reported competitive performance without parameter adjustments.

Scientific Applications:

  • Biomedical image analysis: Enables segmentation, instance detection, regression, and classification across diverse biomedical imaging datasets.
  • Molecular and cellular quantification: Supports quantitative analysis of molecular and cellular processes from microscopy images.

Methodology:

Computational methods explicitly include convolutional neural networks (CNNs), automated and standardized workflows, uncertainty estimation of predictions, and benchmarking on publicly available datasets.

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Details

License:
MIT
Tool Type:
command-line tool
Programming Languages:
Python
Added:
1/18/2021
Last Updated:
2/5/2021

Operations

Publications

Waibel D, Boushehri SS, Marr C. InstantDL - An easy-to-use deep learning pipeline for image segmentation and classification. Unknown Journal. 2020. doi:10.1101/2020.06.22.164103.