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Ian Shofner

Iowa State University

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1

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Angona BiswasiD· 1 shared Anwesha SarkariD· 1 shared Joonhyung Park· 1 shared Karl C. KernsiD· 1 shared Megan Ratka· 1 shared

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Extracting deep learning based morphology segmentation footprint for boar sperm cells

Joonhyung Park, Megan Ratka, Angona Biswas, Ian Shofner, Karl C. Kerns, Anwesha Sarkar

The paper develops a supervised deep learning model to segment boar sperm cells from brightfield images without staining, achieving high accuracy and proposing a flagging system for quality control.

bioRxiv · Aug 17, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics