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Novel Approach Using Echo State Networks for Microscopic Cellular Image Segmentation

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This paper concentrates on the use of Echo State Networks (ESNs), an effective form of reservoir computing, to improve microscopic cellular image segmentation. An ESN is a sparsely connected recurrent neural network in which most of the weights are fixed a priori to randomly chosen values. The only trainable weights are those of links connected to the outputs. The process of segmentation is conducted via two approaches: the basic form, which uses one reservoir, and our approach, which corresponds to using multiple reservoirs. Experimental results confirm the benefits of the second approach, which outperforms all state-of-the-art methods considered in this paper for the problem of microscopic image segmentation.

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    Boudjelal Meftah

  2. UNICAEN, ENSICAEN, GREYC UMR 6072, Normandie Université, Caen, France

    Olivier Lézoray

  3. SIMPA, Department of Computer Science, University of Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO), Oran, Algeria

    Abdelkader Benyettou

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Meftah, B., Lézoray, O. & Benyettou, A. Novel Approach Using Echo State Networks for Microscopic Cellular Image Segmentation. Cogn Comput 8, 237–245 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9354-8

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