Synthetic data enables human-grade microtubule analysis with foundation models for segmentation
Mario Koddenbrock, Jens Westerhoff, Dominik Fachet, Simone Reber, Felix A. Gers, Erik Rodner
The paper introduces a synthetic dataset for microtubule segmentation and evaluates automated methods, finding that a foundation model achieves near-perfect performance when guided by synthetic data.
PLoS Computational Biology · May 5, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics