Nuclei Segmentation from histology images is a fundamental task in digital pathology analysis. However, deep-learning-based nuclei segmentation methods often suffer from limited annotations. This paper proposes a realistic data augmentation method for nuclei segmentation, named InsMix, that follows a Copy-Paste-Smooth principle and performs morphology-constrained generative instance augmentation. Specifically, we propose morphology constraints that enable the augmented images to acquire luxuriant information about nuclei while maintaining their morphology characteristics (e.g., geometry and location). To fully exploit the pixel redundancy of the background and improve the model’s robustness, we further propose a background perturbation method, which randomly shuffles the background patches without disordering the original nuclei distribution. To achieve contextual consistency between original and template instances, a smooth-GAN is designed with a foreground similarity encoder (FSE) and a triplet loss. We validated the proposed method on two datasets, i.e., Kumar and CPS datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of each component and the superior performance achieved by our method to the state-of-the-art methods.The source code is available at https://github.com/hust-linyi/insmix.
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Lin, Y., Wang, Z., Cheng, K. T., & Chen, H. (2022). InsMix: Towards Realistic Generative Data Augmentation for Nuclei Instance Segmentation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13432 LNCS, pp. 140–149). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16434-7_14
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