BudFinder: A Masked Auto-Encoder vision transformer framework for yeast budding detection and lifespan quantification

• Phuc Nguyen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Phuc Nguyen, Zahra Mousavi Karimi, Adrian Layer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Zahra Mousavi Karimi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Phuc Nguyen, Zahra Mousavi Karimi, Adrian Layer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2356-3495

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• Adrian Layer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Phuc Nguyen, Zahra Mousavi Karimi, Adrian Layer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Markus B. Wan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Hetian Su,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Jeff Hasty,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Synthetic Biology Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Nan Hao

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nhao@ucsd.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Synthetic Biology Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2857-4789

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