diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0e0344a2..fd1a1499 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,28 +14,6 @@ bioimage_embed includes functions for loading and preprocessing images from micr pip install git+https://github.com/ctr26/bioimage_embed - -# Mask-VAE - -This project attempts to using modern auto-encoding CNNs to access the latent shape space of a given dataset. -We demonstrate this on microscopy images of nuclei and C. Elegans (worms). -The project includes some sensible tricks such as including symmetry $\min|M^T - M|_2^2$ and $\min|diag(M)|$ constraints to help the model learn that it's using distance matrices. - -## How it works - -- Take image masks (white on black) -- Find their contour (thx [scikit image]((https://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/api/skimage.measure.html#skimage.measure.find_contours))) -- Resample the contour to a standard length -- Create euclidean distance matrix -- Feed matrix as image into VAE -- Train model on distance matrix -- Opt. Convert distance matrix back to mask using MultiDimensionalScaling - -Potential uses for this projects are: - -- Synthetic shape generation for dataset augmentation -- Shape-based phenotyping in the latent space - ## Usage ### Get data @@ -52,7 +30,11 @@ and or: ### Run - python train.py + bioimage_embed --help + + or + + bie --help ### TODO