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Ashish B. Rajurkar

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignORCID 0000-0002-9258-1900Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Assay:imaging· 1

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ROOTQUANT: AUTOMATED ROOT TRAIT QUANTIFICATION FROMMINIRHIZOTRON IMAGES USING DEEP LEARNING

Kinjalk Parth, Sebastián Varela, Zhiru Liu, K. Michael Martini, Ashish B. Rajurkar, Dylan P. Allen, Scott M. McCoy, Jeremy Ruhter, Samuel Walker, Nigel D. Goldenfeld, Andrew D. B. Leakey

RootQuant uses deep learning to automatically quantify root traits from minirhizotron images, achieving high accuracy across species without pixel-level annotations.

bioRxiv · Jul 8, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology