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This method segments nuclei with detected nuclei seed markers through a modified simple one-pass superpixel segmentation method. Rather than using a single pixel as a seed, we created a superseed for each nucleus to involve more information for improved segmentation results. Nucleus pixels are extracted by a newly proposed fusing method to reduce stain variations and preserve nucleus contour information. By evaluating segmentation results, the proposed method was compared to five existing methods on a dataset with 52 immunohistochemically (IHC) stained images. Our proposed method produced the highest mean F1-score of 0.668. By evaluating the counting results, another dataset with more than 30\u00a0000 IHC stained nuclei in 88 images were prepared. The correlation between automatically generated nucleus counting results and manual nucleus counting results was up to R2 = 0.901 (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001). By evaluating segmentation results of proposed method-based tool, we tested on a 2018 Data Science Bowl (DSB) competition dataset, three users obtained DSB score of 0.331\u2009\u00b1\u20090.006.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The proposed method has been implemented as a plugin tool in ImageJ and the source code can be freely downloaded.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa107","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,14]],"date-time":"2020-02-14T12:19:22Z","timestamp":1581682762000},"page":"3225-3233","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Marker controlled superpixel nuclei segmentation and automatic counting on immunohistochemistry staining images"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9879-4587","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Shu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology , North China University of Technology"},{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory on Integration and Analysis of Large-scale Stream Data , Beijing 100144, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jingxin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Histo Pathology Diagnostic Center , Shanghai, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yongmei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology , North China University of Technology"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Intelligence Science and Technology , National University of Defense Technology, Hunan 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Ilyas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences , Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giuseppe","family":"Faraci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics , Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine 33100, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vincenzo","family":"Della Mea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics , Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine 33100, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bozhi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Intelligent Signal Processing , Shenzhen University, Guangzhou 518061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guoping","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Histo Pathology Diagnostic Center , Shanghai, China"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science , University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112031485500_btaa107-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2274","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.2012.120","article-title":"SLIC superpixels compared to state-of-the-art superpixel methods","volume":"34","author":"Achanta","year":"2012","journal-title":"Pattern Anal. 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