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The Cell Tracking Challenge: 10 years of objective benchmarking
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The Cell Tracking Challenge: 10 years of objective benchmarking

Martin Maška, Vladimír Ulman, Pablo Delgado-Rodriguez, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, Tereza Nečasová, Fidel A Guerrero Peña, Tsang Ing Ren, Elliot M Meyerowitz, Tim Scherr, Katharina Löffler, …
Nature methods, v 20(7), pp 1010-1020
18 May 2023
PMID: 37202537
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01879-yView
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Abstract

The Cell Tracking Challenge is an ongoing benchmarking initiative that has become a reference in cell segmentation and tracking algorithm development. Here, we present a significant number of improvements introduced in the challenge since our 2017 report. These include the creation of a new segmentation-only benchmark, the enrichment of the dataset repository with new datasets that increase its diversity and complexity, and the creation of a silver standard reference corpus based on the most competitive results, which will be of particular interest for data-hungry deep learning-based strategies. Furthermore, we present the up-to-date cell segmentation and tracking leaderboards, an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the performance of the state-of-the-art methods and the properties of the datasets and annotations, and two novel, insightful studies about the generalizability and the reusability of top-performing methods. These studies provide critical practical conclusions for both developers and users of traditional and machine learning-based cell segmentation and tracking algorithms.

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