# Deconvolving convolution neural network for cell detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06970 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.06970/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 18 Jun 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Cells are Actors: Social Network Analysis with Classical ML for SOTA Histology Image Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.15299/) (2021)
- [Semi-supervised Cell Detection in Time-lapse Images Using Temporal Consistency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.08639/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Automatic cell detection in histology images is a challenging task due to varying size, shape and features of cells and stain variations across a large cohort. Conventional deep learning methods regress the probability of each pixel belonging to the centre of a cell followed by detection of local maxima. We present deconvolution as an alternate approach to local maxima detection. The ground truth points are convolved with a mapping filter to generate artifical labels. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is modified to convolve it's output with the same mapping filter and is trained for the mapped labels. Output of the trained CNN is then deconvolved to generate points as cell detection. We compare our method with state-of-the-art deep learning approaches where the results show that the proposed approach detects cells with comparatively high precision and F1-score.