2026-04-17 カリフォルニア工科大学（Caltech）
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- https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ai-algorithm-enables-biological-imaging-breakthroughs
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02879-w
CellSAM：細胞セグメンテーションのための基礎モデル CellSAM: a foundation model for cell segmentation
Markus Marks,Uriah Israel,Rohit Dilip,Qilin Li,Changhua Yu,Emily Laubscher,Ahamed Iqbal,Elora Pradhan,Ada Ates,Martin Abt,Caitlin Brown,Edward Pao,Shenyi Li,Alexander Pearson-Goulart,Pietro Perona,Georgia Gkioxari,Ross Barnowski,Yisong Yue & David Van Valen
Nature Methods Published:08 December 2025
Abstract
Cells are a fundamental unit of biological organization, and identifying them in imaging data—cell segmentation—is a critical task for various cellular imaging experiments. Although deep learning methods have led to substantial progress on this problem, most models are specialist models that work well for specific domains but cannot be applied across domains or scale well with large amounts of data. Here we present CellSAM, a universal model for cell segmentation that generalizes across diverse cellular imaging data. CellSAM builds on top of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) by developing a prompt engineering approach for mask generation. We train an object detector, CellFinder, to automatically detect cells and prompt SAM to generate segmentations. We show that this approach allows a single model to achieve human-level performance for segmenting images of mammalian cells, yeast and bacteria collected across various imaging modalities. We show that CellSAM has strong zero-shot performance and can be improved with a few examples via few-shot learning. Additionally, we demonstrate how CellSAM can be applied across diverse bioimage analysis workflows. A deployed version of CellSAM is available at https://cellsam.deepcell.org/.
