Journal: Cell Reports Methods
Article Title: A deep learning pipeline for accurate and automated restoration, segmentation, and quantification of dendritic spines
doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101179
Figure Lengend Snippet: Comparison of RESPAN performance with other software (A) Maximum intensity projection of a raw fluorescence dataset showing a dendritic segment. (B–D) Spine detection outputs from RESPAN (B), DeepD3 (C), and Imaris (D) overlaying the dendritic segment. Detected spines are color coded as true positives (TPs; green), false positives (FPs; magenta), and false negatives (FNs; orange). (E) Percentage of TP spines detected by each method. (F) Recall scores for spine detection, with RESPAN demonstrating consistently higher recall, reflecting fewer FNs. (G) Precision scores for spine detection, with RESPAN outperforming DeepD3 and Imaris by reducing FP detections. (H) F1 scores for spine detection, representing the harmonic mean of precision and recall. RESPAN achieves superior F1 scores compared to other methods. (E)–(H) show a solid line at the median. Sample size: 440 GT spines from 11 dendritic segments.
Article Snippet: Quantitative metrics confirm that RESPAN achieves superior recall ( p = 0.0144 vs. DeepD3; p = 0.0954 vs. Imaris), precision ( p = 0.0143 vs. DeepD3; p = 0.0177 vs. Imaris), and F1 score ( p = 0.0047 vs. DeepD3; p = 0.0473 vs. Imaris) ( H).
Techniques: Comparison, Software, Fluorescence