Compound image segmentation of published biomedical figures

Pengyuan Li, Xiangying Jiang, Chandra Kambhamettu, Hagit Shatkay

Abstract: Images convey essential information in biomedical publications. As such, there is a growing interest within the bio-curation and the bio-databases communities, to store images within publications as evidence for biomedical processes and for experimental results. However, many of the images in biomedical publications are compound images consisting of multiple panels, where each individual panel potentially conveys a different type of information. Segmenting such images into constituent panels is an essential first step toward utilizing images.