Quanti.us: a tool for rapid, flexible, crowd-based annotation of images

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作者
Hughes, Alex J. [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Mornin, Joseph D.
Biswas, Sujoy K. [2 ,3 ]
Beck, Lauren E. [4 ]
Bauer, David P. [2 ,5 ]
Raj, Arjun [4 ]
Bianco, Simone [2 ]
Gartner, Zev J. [1 ,2 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Pharmaceut Chem, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Francisco, NSF Ctr Cellular Construct, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[3] IBM Almaden Res Ctr, Dept Ind & Appl Genom, IBM Accelerated Discovery Lab, San Jose, CA USA
[4] Univ Penn, Dept Bioengn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[5] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Cellular & Mol Pharmacol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[6] Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA
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10.1038/s41592-018-0069-0
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We describe Quanti. us, a crowd-based image-annotation platform that provides an accurate alternative to computational algorithms for difficult image-analysis problems. We used Quanti. us for a variety of medium-throughput image-analysis tasks and achieved 10-50x savings in analysis time compared with that required for the same task by a single expert annotator. We show equivalent deep learning performance for Quanti. us-derived and expert-derived annotations, which should allow scalable integration with tailored machine learning algorithms.
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