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AxonEM Dataset

Large-scale 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions from serial section Electron Microscopy (sEM).

Dataset Description

AxonEM contains high-resolution electron microscopy volumes of mouse and human brain cortex tissue for axon instance segmentation.

Subsets

Subset	Species	Volumes	Resolution	Original Size
Human	Homo sapiens	9	30×8×8 nm	1000×4096×4096
Mouse	Mus musculus	9	40×8×8 nm	750×4096×4096

Volume Information

Each training sub-volume has shape (90, 1536, 1536) voxels with padding:

Padding: 20 slices in Z, 512 pixels in Y/X (on each side)
Annotated region: (50, 512, 512) after removing padding

File Structure

AxonEM/
├── EM30-H-train-9vol-pad-20-512-512/    # Human subset
│   ├── im_0-0-0_pad.h5                   # Image volume
│   ├── seg_0-0-0_pad.h5                  # Segmentation (instance labels)
│   └── ...
├── EM30-M-train-9vol-pad-20-512-512/    # Mouse subset
│   ├── im_0-0-0_pad.h5
│   ├── seg_0-0-0_pad.h5
│   ├── valid_mask.h5                     # Valid annotation mask
│   └── ...
└── README.md

HDF5 Format

Each .h5 file contains a single dataset with key 'main':

Image files (im_*.h5): uint8 grayscale EM images, shape (90, 1536, 1536)
Segmentation files (seg_*.h5): uint8 instance labels, shape (90, 1536, 1536)
- 0 = background
- 1-N = axon instance IDs

Loading Example

import h5py
import numpy as np

# Load a volume
with h5py.File('EM30-H-train-9vol-pad-20-512-512/im_0-0-0_pad.h5', 'r') as f:
    image = f['main'][:]  # (90, 1536, 1536) uint8

with h5py.File('EM30-H-train-9vol-pad-20-512-512/seg_0-0-0_pad.h5', 'r') as f:
    labels = f['main'][:]  # (90, 1536, 1536) uint8

# Convert to binary mask (axon vs background)
binary_mask = (labels > 0).astype(np.uint8)

# Remove padding to get annotated region
z_pad, y_pad, x_pad = 20, 512, 512
image_cropped = image[z_pad:-z_pad, y_pad:-y_pad, x_pad:-x_pad]  # (50, 512, 512)

Using with EasyMedSeg

from dataloader.axonem import AxonEMImageDataset, AxonEMVideoDataset

# Image mode (2D slices)
dataset = AxonEMImageDataset(
    hf_repo_id="Angelou0516/AxonEM",
    subset="human",  # or "mouse"
)

# Video mode (3D volumes)
dataset = AxonEMVideoDataset(
    hf_repo_id="Angelou0516/AxonEM",
    subset="human",
)

Citation

@inproceedings{wei2021miccai,
  title={AxonEM Dataset: 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions},
  author={Wei, Donglai and Xu, Kisuk and Liao, Ran and Pfister, Hanspeter and 
          Haehn, Daniel and Bhanu, Shubham and Bhattacharyya, Chandrajit},
  booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and 
             Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
  year={2021}
}

License

This dataset is released under CC BY 4.0.

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Paper for MedOtter/AxonEM

AxonEM Dataset: 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions

Paper • 2107.05451 • Published Jul 12, 2021