DeepCell is neural network library for single cell analysis, written in Python and built using TensorFlow and Keras.

DeepCell aids in biological analysis by automatically segmenting and classifying cells in optical microscopy images. The framework processes raw images and uniquely annotates each cell in the image. These annotations can be used to quantify a variety of cellular properties.

Read the documentation at deepcell.readthedocs.io

For more information on deploying DeepCell in the cloud refer to the DeepCell Kiosk documentation

Raw Image	Segmented and Tracked

The fastest way to get started with DeepCell is to run the latest docker image:

nvidia-docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 vanvalenlab/deepcell-tf:latest

This will start a jupyter session, with several example notebooks detailing various training methods:

• RetinaNet Object Detection.ipynb

• RetinaMask Instance Segmentation.ipynb

• PanOptic Segmentation.ipynb

• 2D Pixel-Wise Transform - Fully Convolutional.ipynb

• 2D Pixel-Wise Transform - Sample Based.ipynb

• 3D Pixel-Wise Transform - Fully Convolutional.ipynb

• 3D Pixel-Wise Transform - Sample Based.ipynb

• 2D Watershed - Fully Convolutional.ipynb

• 2D Watershed - Sample Based.ipynb

• 3D Watershed - Fully Convolutional.ipynb

• 3D Watershed - Sample Based.ipynb

• Tracking Example.ipynb

DeepCell uses nvidia-docker and tensorflow to enable GPU processing.

git clone https://github.com/vanvalenlab/deepcell-tf.git
cd deepcell-tf
docker build -t $USER/deepcell-tf .

The tensorflow version can be overridden with the build-arg TF_VERSION.

docker build --build-arg TF_VERSION=1.15.0-gpu -t $USER/deepcell-tf .

# NV_GPU refers to the specific GPU to run DeepCell on, and is not required

# Mounting the codebase, scripts and data to the container is also optional
# but can be handy for local development

NV_GPU='0' nvidia-docker run -it \
  -p 8888:8888 \
  $USER/deepcell-tf:latest

It can also be helpful to mount the local copy of the repository and the scripts to speed up local development.

NV_GPU='0' nvidia-docker run -it \
  -p 8888:8888 \
  -v $PWD/deepcell:/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/deepcell/ \
  -v $PWD/scripts:/notebooks \
  -v /data:/data \
  $USER/deepcell-tf:latest

• The original DeepCell paper
• DeepCell 2.0: Automated cloud deployment of deep learning models for large-scale cellular image analysis

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