CIL:27864

One of the principal challenges in counting or segmenting nuclei is dealing with clustered nuclei. To help assess algorithms' performance in this regard, this synthetic image set consists of five subsets with increasing degree of clustering. Five subsets of 20 images each are provided. Each image contains 300 objects, but the objects overlap and cluster with overlap probability ranging from 0.0 to 0.6, and can be found with CIL 27833, 27853, 28754, 28734, and 28714, respectively. This image set has 0.15 probability overlap. The images were generated with the SIMCEP (http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/csb/simcep/tool.html) simulating platform for fluorescent cell population images (Lehmussola et al., IEEE T. Med. Imaging, 2007 and Lehmussola et al., P. IEEE, 2008). Ground truth for foreground/background segmentation are available as binary images as the second image in the tiff image stack.
Recommended citation We used the Synthetic 1 image set (Ruusuvuori et al., in Proc. of the 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008), 2008), available from the Broad Bioimage Benchmark Collection (www.broad.mit.edu/bbbc).

细胞核计数或分割任务的核心挑战之一，在于如何处理成团聚集的细胞核。为辅助评估相关算法在该场景下的性能，本合成图像集包含五个聚类程度逐级提升的子集。
每个子集包含20张图像，单张图像内共包含300个目标对象，但这些对象存在重叠与聚集现象，重叠概率范围为0.0至0.6，各子集分别对应CIL 27833、27853、28754、28734与28714。本图像集的重叠概率为0.15。
本图像集通过SIMCEP（http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/csb/simcep/tool.html）荧光细胞群体图像仿真平台生成（Lehmussola等人，《IEEE医学成像汇刊》，2007年；Lehmussola等人，《IEEE汇刊》，2008年）。
前景/背景分割的真值标签以二值图像形式提供，对应TIFF图像栈中的第二张图像。
推荐引用方式：本研究使用了Synthetic 1图像集（Ruusuvuori等人，收录于第16届欧洲信号处理大会（EUSIPCO-2008）论文集，2008年），可从Broad生物图像基准数据集（Broad Bioimage Benchmark Collection，www.broad.mit.edu/bbbc）获取。