INEB RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Transfer Learning for the Recognition of Immunogold Particles in TEM imaging

INEB researchers recently published an article in the proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN, 2015, available 10 June, 2015. The article is entitled "Transfer Learning for the Recognition of Immunogold Particles in TEM imaging" and is authored by Ricardo Gamelas Sousa, Tiago Esteves, Sara Rocha, Francisco Figueiredo, Joaquim M. de Sá, Luís A. Alexandre, Jorge M. Santos, Luis M. Silva.

We proposed a Transfer Learning (TL) framework based on Stacked Denoising Autoencoder (SDA) for the recognition of immunogold particles. These particles are part of a high-resolution method for the selective localization of biological molecules at the subcellular level only visible through Transmission Electron Microscopy. Our TL framework outperformed the baseline (not involving TL) approach by more than 20% of accuracy on the recognition of immunogold particles.