Automatic segmentation has great potential to facilitate morphological measurements while simultaneously increasing efficiency. Nevertheless often users want to edit the segmentation to their own needs and will need different tools for this. There has been methods developed to edit segmentations of automatic methods based on the user input, primarily for binary segmentations. Here however, we present an unique training strategy for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on top of an automatic method to enable interactive segmentation editing that is not limited to binary segmentation. By utilizing a robot-user during training, we closely mimic realistic use cases to achieve optimal editing performance. In addition, we show that an increase of the iterative interactions during the training process up to ten improves the segmentation editing performance substantially. Furthermore, we compare our segmentation editing CNN (interCNN) to state-of-the-art interactive segmentation algorithms and show a superior or on par performance.
Blind deconvolution is an ill-posed problem arising in various fields ranging from microscopy to astronomy. Its illposed nature demands adequate priors and initialization to arrive at a desirable solution. Recently, it has been shown that deep networks can serve as an image generation prior (DIP) during unsupervised blind deconvolution optimization, however, DIP's high frequency artifact suppression ability is not explicitly exploited. We propose to use Wienerdeconvolution to guide DIP during optimization in order to better leverage DIP's ability for blind image deconvolution. Wiener-deconvolution sharpens an image while introducing high-frequency artifacts, which are reproduced by DIP with a delay compared to low-frequency features and sharp edges, similar to what has been observed for noise. We embed the computational process in a constrained optimization problem together with an automatic kernel initialization method and show that the proposed method yields higher performance and stability across multiple datasets.
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