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New benchmark evaluates self-supervised learning for imaging flow cytometry

Researchers have introduced IFC-SSL-Bench, a new framework designed to evaluate self-supervised learning (SSL) methods for multispectral imaging flow cytometry (IFC). This benchmark assesses six SSL approaches and four backbone architectures across two datasets, quantifying annotation efficiency by comparing downstream classification performance with varying percentages of annotated data. The study found that SSL can match fully supervised baselines using as little as 5% of annotations for morphological classification, with significant improvements in low-data regimes. AI

IMPACT Provides a framework and guidelines to improve annotation efficiency in biological imaging, potentially accelerating research in fields like immunology.

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New benchmark evaluates self-supervised learning for imaging flow cytometry

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Angelo Jovin Yamachui Sitcheu, Roxana-Teodora Fetescu, Thomas Lautenschlager, Nils Friederich, Linus Schilpp, Stephan Allgeier, Luca Deininger, Daniel H\"ubschmann, Ralf Mikut ·

    IFC-SSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Annotation-Efficient Multispectral Imaging Flow Cytometry

    arXiv:2610.31848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imaging Flow Cytometry (IFC) generates large multispectral datasets, yet the need for expert annotations bottlenecks the development of supervised deep learning models. While Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) offers a solution, its app…