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The algorithm is based on our established PRAQA approach, which evaluates the dispersion of several pixel intensity neighborhoods allowing for a statistical assessment whether individual subfields of an image can be considered as positive signal or background. PaFSe extends PRAQA by a fully automatic estimate for the segmentation parameters, and thereby provides a completely parameter-free and robust segmentation algorithm. By comparing PaFSe with Ilastik on synthetic examples, we show that our method achieves similar performances as a supervised approach in low-to-moderate noise environments without the need of tedious training. Furthermore, we validate the efficiency of PaFSe by segmenting and quantifying the abundance of hyperphosphorylated Tau protein in post-mortem human brain samples from Alzheimer\u2019s disease patients and age-matched controls, where we obtain quantification values highly correlated with manual neuropathological segmentation. 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