# Description

The LIVECell dataset was published by [Edlund et.al.](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01249-6) in 2021. This dataset consists of over 1.6 million high-quality cells from various sets of cell morphologies and 
culture densities which are manually annotated carefully by experts.
There are 8 types of Cells in this dataset. All of them were merged and then continued pre-trained from LVM-MED weights.


```bibtex
@article{edlund2021livecell,
  title={LIVECell—A large-scale dataset for label-free live cell segmentation},
  author={Edlund, Christoffer and Jackson, Timothy R and Khalid, Nabeel and Bevan, Nicola and Dale, Timothy and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, Sheraz and Trygg, Johan and Sj{\"o}gren, Rickard},
  journal={Nature methods},
  volume={18},
  number={9},
  pages={1038--1045},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group US New York}
}
```