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Nikhil Dave

University of Tennessee Health Science CenterORCID 0000-0003-4232-4815Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Organism:rat· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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A Systematic Review and Independent Benchmarking of Automated Nerve Morphometry Methods

Benton Chuter, Min Young Kim, Andrew B. Stiemke, Nikhil Dave, Harrison R. Cape, Zirui Zhou, Jay Herrin, Matthew C. Miller, William White, TJ Hollingsworth, Monica M. Jablonski

This paper benchmarks automated nerve morphometry tools on mouse and rat optic nerve datasets, finding comparable performance between classical and deep learning methods.

bioRxiv · Aug 31, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering

Comparison of Deep Learning Tools for Optic Nerve Axon Quantification Finds Limited Generalizability on Independent Validation

Benton Chuter, Noah Emmert, Min Young Kim, Andrew B. Stiemke, Nikhil Dave, Jay Herrin, Zirui Zhou, Gideon Wall, Lu Lu, Robert W. Williams, Abraham A. Palmer, Hao Chen, TJ Hollingsworth, Monica M. Jablonski

This study evaluates three deep learning models for optic nerve axon quantification on a novel rat dataset, finding reduced performance compared to published benchmarks.

Bioengineering · May 30, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering