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Addressing multiple salient object detection via dual-space long-range dependencies (2023)
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Salient object detection plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of detecting multi... Read More about Addressing multiple salient object detection via dual-space long-range dependencies.

Semantic Segmentation of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Intraventricular Hemorrhage, and Associated Edema on CT Images Using Deep Learning (2022)
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This study evaluated deep learning algorithms for semantic segmentation and quantification of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), perihematomal edema (PHE), and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) on noncontrast CT scans of patients with spontaneous ICH. M... Read More about Semantic Segmentation of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Intraventricular Hemorrhage, and Associated Edema on CT Images Using Deep Learning.

Temporal refinement of 3D CNN semantic segmentations on 4D time-series of undersampled tomograms using hidden Markov models (2021)
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Recently, several convolutional neural networks have been proposed not only for 2D images, but also for 3D and 4D volume segmentation. Nevertheless, due to the large data size of the latter, acquiring a sufficient amount of training annotations is mu... Read More about Temporal refinement of 3D CNN semantic segmentations on 4D time-series of undersampled tomograms using hidden Markov models.

Domain Adaptation of Synthetic Images for Wheat Head Detection (2021)
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Wheat head detection is a core computer vision problem related to plant phenotyping that in recent years has seen increased interest as large-scale datasets have been made available for use in research. In deep learning problems with limited training... Read More about Domain Adaptation of Synthetic Images for Wheat Head Detection.

A stacked dense denoising–segmentation network for undersampled tomograms and knowledge transfer using synthetic tomograms (2021)
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Over recent years, many approaches have been proposed for the denoising or semantic segmentation of X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. In most cases, high-quality CT reconstructions are used; however, such reconstructions are not always available.... Read More about A stacked dense denoising–segmentation network for undersampled tomograms and knowledge transfer using synthetic tomograms.

Volumetric Segmentation of Cell Cycle Markers in Confocal Images Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning (2020)
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© Copyright © 2020 Khan, Voß, Pound and French. Understanding plant growth processes is important for many aspects of biology and food security. Automating the observations of plant development—a process referred to as plant phenotyping—is increasing... Read More about Volumetric Segmentation of Cell Cycle Markers in Confocal Images Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN (2019)
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There is an increase in consumption of agricultural produce as a result of the rapidly growing human population, particularly in developing nations. This has triggered high-quality plant phenotyping re- search to help with the breeding of high yieldi... Read More about Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN.

CNN-Based Cassava Storage Root Counting Using Real and Synthetic Images (2019)
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Cassava roots are complex structures comprising several distinct types of root. The number and size of the storage roots are two potential phenotypic traits reflecting crop yield and quality. Counting and measuring the size of cassava storage roots a... Read More about CNN-Based Cassava Storage Root Counting Using Real and Synthetic Images.

A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: Unravelling the below-ground secrets of cassava (Manihot esculenta) (2019)
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© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Root and tuber crops are becoming more important for their high source of carbohydrates, next to cereals. Despite their commercial impact, there are significant knowledge gaps about the environmental and inherent reg... Read More about A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: Unravelling the below-ground secrets of cassava (Manihot esculenta).

RootNav 2.0: Deep learning for automatic navigation of complex plant root architectures (2019)
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© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. BACKGROUND: In recent years quantitative analysis of root growth has become increasingly important as a way to explore the influence of abiotic stress such as high temperature and drought on... Read More about RootNav 2.0: Deep learning for automatic navigation of complex plant root architectures.

A convolutional neural network for fast upsampling of undersampled tomograms in X-ray CT time-series using a representative highly sampled tomogram (2019)
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We designed a convolutional neural network to quickly and accurately upscale the sinograms of x-ray tomograms captured with a low number of projections; effectively increasing the number of projections. This is particularly useful for tomograms that... Read More about A convolutional neural network for fast upsampling of undersampled tomograms in X-ray CT time-series using a representative highly sampled tomogram.

Active Vision and Surface Reconstruction for 3D Plant Shoot Modelling (2019)
Journal Article

Plant phenotyping is the quantitative description of a plant’s physiological, biochemical and anatomical status which can be used in trait selection and helps to provide mechanisms to link underlying genetics with yield. Here, an active vision- based... Read More about Active Vision and Surface Reconstruction for 3D Plant Shoot Modelling.

Roots branch towards water by post-translational modification of transcription factor ARF7 (2018)
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Plants adapt to heterogeneous soil conditions by altering their root architecture. For example, roots branch when in contact with water using the hydropatterning response. We report that hydropatterning is dependent on auxin response factor ARF7. Thi... Read More about Roots branch towards water by post-translational modification of transcription factor ARF7.

Plant phenotyping: an active vision cell for three-dimensional plant shoot reconstruction (2018)
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© 2018 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved. Three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated models of plants are urgently needed to support both phenotyping and simulation-based studies such as photosynthesis modeling. However, the co... Read More about Plant phenotyping: an active vision cell for three-dimensional plant shoot reconstruction.

Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions (2018)
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Phosphorus is a crucial macronutrient for plants playing a critical role in many cellular signaling and energy cycling processes. In light of this, phosphorus acquisition efficiency is an important target trait for crop improvement, but it also provi... Read More about Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions.

Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions (2018)
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© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Better understanding of root traits such as root angle and root gravitropism will be crucial for development of crops with improved resource use efficiency. This chapter describes a high-throughput, autom... Read More about Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions.

Hyperspectral image analysis techniques for the detection and classification of the early onset of plant disease and stress (2017)
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This review explores how imaging techniques are being developed with a focus on deployment for crop monitoring methods. Imaging applications are discussed in relation to both field and glasshouse-based plants, and techniques are sectioned into ‘healt... Read More about Hyperspectral image analysis techniques for the detection and classification of the early onset of plant disease and stress.

Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping (2017)
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© The Author 2017. In plant phenotyping, it has become important to be able to measure many features on large image sets in order to aid genetic discovery. The size of the datasets, now often captured robotically, often precludes manual inspection, h... Read More about Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping.

Volume Segmentation and Analysis of Biological Materials Using SuRVoS (Super-region Volume Segmentation) Workbench (2017)
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Segmentation is the process of isolating specific regions or objects within an imaged volume, so that further study can be undertaken on these areas of interest. When considering the analysis of complex biological systems, the segmentation of three-d... Read More about Volume Segmentation and Analysis of Biological Materials Using SuRVoS (Super-region Volume Segmentation) Workbench.

AutoRoot: open-source software employing a novel image analysis approach to support fully-automated plant phenotyping (2017)
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Background: Computer-based phenotyping of plants has risen in importance in recent years. Whilst much software has been written to aid phenotyping using image analysis, to date the vast majority has been only semi-automatic. However, such interaction... Read More about AutoRoot: open-source software employing a novel image analysis approach to support fully-automated plant phenotyping.