Torch'em

Deep-learning based semantic and instance segmentation for 3D Electron Microscopy and other bioimage analysis problems based on pytorch. Any feedback is highly appreciated, just open an issue!

Highlights:

Functional API with sensible defaults to train a state-of-the-art segmentation model with a few lines of code.
Differentiable augmentations on GPU and CPU thanks to kornia.
Off-the-shelf logging with tensorboard or wandb.
Export trained models to bioimage.io model format with one function call to deploy them in ilastik or deepimageJ.

Design:

All parameters are specified in code, no configuration files.
No callback logic; to extend the core functionality inherit from trainer.DefaultTrainer instead.
All data-loading is lazy to support training on large data-sets.

# train a 2d U-Net for foreground and boundary segmentation of nuclei
# using data from https://github.com/mpicbg-csbd/stardist/releases/download/0.1.0/dsb2018.zip

import torch
import torch_em
from torch_em.model import UNet2d
from torch_em.data.datasets import get_dsb_loader

model = UNet2d(in_channels=1, out_channels=2)

# transform to go from instance segmentation labels
# to foreground/background and boundary channel
label_transform = torch_em.transform.BoundaryTransform(
    add_binary_target=True, ndim=2
)

# training and validation data loader
data_path = "./dsb"  # the training data will be downloaded and saved here
train_loader = get_dsb_loader(
    data_path, 
    patch_shape=(1, 256, 256),
    batch_size=8
    split="train",
    download=True,
    label_transform=label_transform
)
val_loader = get_dsb_loader(
    data_path, 
    patch_shape=(1, 256, 256),
    batch_size=8,
    split="test",
    label_transform=label_transform
)

# the trainer object that handles the training details
# the model checkpoints will be saved in "checkpoints/dsb-boundary-model"
# the tensorboard logs will be saved in "logs/dsb-boundary-model"
trainer = torch_em.default_segmentation_trainer(
    name="dsb-boundary-model",
    model=model,
    train_loader=train_loader,
    val_loader=val_loader,
    learning_rate=1e-4,
    device=torch.device("cuda")
)
trainer.fit(iterations=5000)

# export bioimage.io model format
from glob import glob
import imageio
from torch_em.util import export_bioimageio_model

# load one of the images to use as reference image image
test_im = imageio.imread(glob(f"{data_path}/test/images/*.tif")[0])

export_bioimageio_model("./checkpoints/dsb-boundary-model", "./bioimageio-model", test_im)

For a more in-depth example, check out one of the example notebooks:

2D-UNet: train a 2d UNet for a segmentation task. Available on google colab.
3D-UNet: train a 3d UNet for a segmentation task. Available on google colab.

Installation

From conda

You can install torch_em from conda-forge:

conda install -c conda-forge torch_em

Please check out pytorch.org for more information on how to install a pytorch version compatible with your system.

From source

It's recommmended to set up a conda environment for using torch_em. Two conda environment files are provided: environment_cpu.yaml for a pure cpu set-up and environment_gpu.yaml for a gpu set-up. If you want to use the gpu version, make sure to set the correct cuda version for your system in the environment file, by modifiying this-line.

You can set up a conda environment using one of these files like this:

conda env create -f <ENV>.yaml -n <ENV_NAME>
conda activate <ENV_NAME>
pip install -e .

where .yaml is either environment_cpu.yaml or environment_gpu.yaml.

Features

Training of 2d U-Nets and 3d U-Nets for various segmentation tasks.
Random forest based transfer learning from Shallow2Deep
Training models for embedding prediction with sparse instance labels from SPOCO

Command Line Scripts