Higher Microscopy Resolution Can Hurt CNN Segmentation, Study Finds

Ferreira et al. find that overly high microscopy image resolution shrinks the physical coverage of CNNs' fixed receptive fields, and downsampling inputs 4x actually improves U-Net segmentation accuracy.

2026-09-22 ~ 2026-09-23 · 2 related posts

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