An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlines

Here we present a benchmarking dataset of fluorescence microscopy images with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells together with annotations of their outlines. Images were randomly selected from an RNA interference screen with a modified U2OS osteosarcoma cell line, acquired on a Thermo Fischer CX7 high-content imaging system at 20x magnification. 

The dataset contains 60 images showing over 2000 labelled nuclear objects in total, which is sufficiently large to train well-performing neural networks for instance or semantic segmentation. It is pre-split into training, development and test set, each in a zip file. The dataset should be referred to as Aitslab_bioimaging2.

For most of the images, nuclear staining and annotations have been published previously in the dataset Aitslab_bioimaging1 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6657260). The conversion script to produce the png images from the C01 images was published together with this dataset.