Table 4

A summary of fully supervised nuclei segmentation methods.

Ref.DatasetMethodsPre-ProcessingPost-Processing
[52]DSB2018, MoNuSegRegion based Mask RCNN with Guided Anchor RPNResizingSoft Non Maximum Suppression
[81]DSB2018Mask RCNN with ResNet-101 backbonePretrained with weights of COCO datasetClump identification followed by marker controlled watershed
[24]CoNSeP, Kumar, TNBC, CPM-15, CPM-17, CRCHistoHoVerNet: Three branch U-Net with horizontal and vertical distance maps to separate nuclei clustersPatch extractionGradient based marker controlled watershed from distance map
[11]Kidney dataset, TNBC, MoNuSegHigh resolution wide and deep transferred ASPPU-NetPatch extraction, Data augmentation 
[43]MoNuSeg, TNBC, CryoNuSeg, BBBC039V1Dense ResU-Net with residual connections of atrous blocksColor Normalization, patch extraction, Data Augmentation 
[83]Post-NAT-BRCA, MoNuSegCascaded U-Net framework (U-Net with weighted pixel loss followed by Vanilla U-Net with a soft Dice lossZero padding, patch extraction, weighted mask generationErosion, Dilation, Reconstruction
[28]MoNuSegEnhanced lightweight U-Net with generalized Dice lossStain normalization, resizing, patch extraction, data augmentationOpening
[16]DSB2018, BBBC006v1, BBBC039, PanNukeCPP-Net with Context Enhancement, Confidence Based Weighting and Shape Aware Perceptual Loss Semantic segmentation decoder, NMS, Reassignment of pixels to correct categories
Ref.DatasetMethodsPre-ProcessingPost-Processing
[48]Kumar datasetTernary CNN with boundary classColor normalization, (boundary annotation, pixel mapping in training stage), patch extractionSeed detection by thresholding followed by region growing using boundary class
[67]224 H&E stained images of ganglion cells from pediatric intestineBoundary Enhanced U-Net with two decodersDownsampling, random cropping, data augmentation 
[110]MoNuSegContour Aware Information Aggregation Network with information aggregation modules between two decodersStain normalization, data augmentationNuclei and contour outputs subtracted, connected component identification
[15]Kumar, CPM-17Boundary assisted Region Proposal NetworkStain normalization, normalization, data augmentation 
[72]HUSTS, MoNuSeg, CoNSeP, CPM-17Region Enhanced multitask U-Net with auxiliary tasks of rough segmentation and contour extractionPatch extraction, data augmentationMarker controlled watershed
[90]150 3D abdominal CT scans, 82 3D pancreatic CT scansAttention Gated U-NetDowsampling, data augmentation-
[50]KMC Liver dataset, Kumar datasetNeucliSegNet (U-Net based) with robust residual blocks in encoder, bottleneck block, attention decoder blockResizing, patch extraction. No pretraining-
[105]ClusteredCell, MoNuSeg, CoNSeP, CPM-17Gating Context Aware Pooling integrated modified U-NetResizing, patch extraction, data augmentation, ImageNet pretrained ResNet-34-
[51]DSB2018, MoNuSegU-Net based Convolutional Blur Attention NetworkPatch extraction, training data generation, Biorthogonal wavelet denoising-

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