AttentionBoost: Learning What to Attend for Gland Segmentation in Histopathological Images by Boosting Fully Convolutional Networks.

Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) are widely used for instance segmentation. One important challenge is to sufficiently train these networks to yield good generalizations for hard-to-learn pixels, correct prediction of which may greatly affect the success. A typical group of such hard-to-learn pixels are boundaries between instances.

DeepDistance: A multi-task deep regression model for cell detection in inverted microscopy images.

This paper presents a new deep regression model, which we call DeepDistance, for cell detection in images acquired with inverted microscopy. This model considers cell detection as a task of finding most probable locations that suggest cell centers in an image. It represents this main task with a regression task of learning an inner distance metric.