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An open benchmark for nuclear segmentation reproducibility across annotation protocols

Yamada H, Berg L

Computational Pathology Journal · Published 30 May 2026 · DOI: 10.00000/cpj.2026.0037

Abstract

Annotation protocol variability is an under-reported source of performance variance in nuclear segmentation. We release a benchmark comprising the same 250 regions annotated under three protocols by five annotators, and quantify the resulting spread in reported model performance.

Keywords

segmentationbenchmarkingannotationreproducibility

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Yamada H, Berg L. An open benchmark for nuclear segmentation reproducibility across annotation protocols. Computational Pathology Journal. 2026. doi:10.00000/cpj.2026.0037