Budfinder

Budfinder decreases annotated training data requirement in silico (>5-fold reduction).

“we reduced the training data requirement to fewer than 50 mother cells (~1,000 divisions), representing a >5-fold reduction compared to prior methods while maintaining comparable accuracy.”

In silico

BudFinder: A Masked Auto-Encoder Vision Transformer Framework for Yeast Budding Detection

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·5 Nov 2025Preprint