Rapidly adaptive cell detection using transfer learning with a global parameter

  • Authors:
  • Nhat H. Nguyen;Eric Norris;Mark G. Clemens;Min C. Shin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte;Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte;Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte;Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

  • Venue:
  • MLMI'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Machine learning in medical imaging
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recent advances in biomedical imaging have enabled the analysis of many different cell types. Learning-based cell detectors tend to be specific to a particular imaging protocol and cell type. For a new dataset, a tedious re-training process is required. In this paper, we present a novel method of training a cell detector on new datasets with minimal effort. First, we combine the classification rules extracted from existing data with the training samples of new data using transfer learning. Second, a global parameter is incorporated to refine the ranking of the classification rules. We demonstrate that our method achieves the same performance as previous approaches with only 10% of the training effort.