This invention provides a method for
cell nucleus segmentation in
pathological images based on
deep neural networks under weak supervision. The method includes: performing point
annotation processing on sample images to generate a coarse supervision
signal, including Venn diagram labels, cluster labels, and superpixel labels; using the Venn diagram boundary as a geometric prior, converting the superpixel labels into soft labels through an adaptive
label smoothing strategy; constructing a segmentation network with an
encoder-decoder structure, embedding a multi-domain edge module after each downsampling stage of the
encoder to extract and enhance
cell nucleus boundary features; embedding multi-faceted feature enhancement modules at the skip connections between the
encoder and decoder to denoise, enhance, and structurally focus the features; and jointly training the network based on the supervision
signal using a weighted multi-task
loss function to obtain a trained segmentation model, which is then used to segment
cell nucleus instances in the
pathological image to be segmented. This invention achieves high-precision
cell nucleus instance segmentation using only point annotations.