v1.4.0 🌈

Fix windows installation, GUI updates and automatic tracking

This release includes three main changes:

• Preliminary support for automatic tracking via Trackastra integration.
• Changes in the GUI to make the model names more informative
• Much easier installation on windows

Changes

• New release @constantinpape (#971)
• Minor update to environment file and other docs @anwai98 (#972)
• Fix automatic tracking with dask @constantinpape (#970)
• Update model combination tooltips and adapt other GUIs @anwai98 (#964)
• Better preservation for committed objects @constantinpape (#967)
• Update benchmark.py @YonghaoZhao722 (#966)
• Update commit to file @constantinpape (#959)
• Validate model type with model state instead of state @caroteu (#962)
• Minor update to training CLI @anwai98 (#957)
• Add scripts for annotating data on OMERO server @anwai98 (#941)
• Fix dependencies @constantinpape (#955)
• Add checks for valid values parsed to finetuning CLI arguments @anwai98 (#944)
• Omero support for TiM workshop @constantinpape (#946)
• Merge master into dev @constantinpape (#947)
• Start preparation for TIM2025 workshop @anwai98 (#925)
• Minor updates to embedding widget @anwai98 (#938)
• Tracking layer @constantinpape (#913)
• Fix issues in the image series annotator and load existing segmentati… @constantinpape (#936)
• Add download progress bar to napari info log @anwai98 (#933)
• Make GUI default model choice depend on micro_sam defaults @anwai98 (#934)
• Add validation window for avoiding recomputing embeddings @anwai98 (#790)
• Allow flexible loading of mismatching checkpoint-model type combination @anwai98 (#886)
• Add implementation for Late PEFT @caroteu (#916)
• Save outputs of automatic segmentation CLI in stages @anwai98 (#928)
• Implement batched prediction for the AIS segmentation decoder @constantinpape (#932)
• Update model choice design in annotator tools @anwai98 (#927)
• Add evaluation CLI mentions to usage FAQ @anwai98 (#930)
• Update GUI to avoid replicating existing label / prompt layers @anwai98 (#929)
• Implement batched embedding computation @constantinpape (#926)
• End: ensure the return of _to_image is a np.array (allows dask layers to work) @psobolewskiPhD (#922)
• Add support for avoiding to overwrite trained model @anwai98 (#919)
• Add information CLI @anwai98 (#911)
• Update environment file for installation @anwai98 (#912)
• Update embedding widget to pop dialog box for no images @anwai98 (#910)
• Support multiple images in automatic segmentation CLI @anwai98 (#904)
• Start implementation for automated tracking @constantinpape (#678)
• Add evaluation CLI for segmentations @anwai98 (#899)
• Update training section in doc with finetuning CLI mention @anwai98 (#900)
• Update example notebooks with comments on tiling-based inference @anwai98 (#901)
• Update default prompt propagation mode for multidimensional data @anwai98 (#903)
• Move automatic segmentation mode @constantinpape (#898)
• Remove exclusive yaml file for windows @anwai98 (#895)
• Update win installation WIP @constantinpape (#869)

v1.3.1 🌈

Changes

• Bump version @constantinpape (#885)
• Add support for preprocessing inputs in training CLI @anwai98 (#879)
• Update documentation with latest features @anwai98 (#890)
• Minor fix to handle is_seg_dataset argument @anwai98 (#892)
• Minor fix to automatic segmentation in 3d @anwai98 (#882)
• Add data submission section to the documentation @constantinpape (#881)
• Update RELEASE_OVERVIEW.md @anwai98 (#878)

v1.3.0 🌈

New Light Microscopy Models

This release introduces a new light microscopy model that was trained on a larger dataset and clearly improves automatic segmentation.

See the improvements (qualitative and quantitative) of the new model:

The vit-b version of this model is the new default model used in micro_sam.

Changes

• Bump version @constantinpape (#877)
• Add link to new models on BioImage.IO @anwai98 (#873)
• Minor update to remove debugging scripts @anwai98 (#876)
• Change default model @constantinpape (#874)
• Merge dev into master @constantinpape (#872)
• Release preparation for new LM v3 models @anwai98 (#862)
• Add menu option for automatic segmentation modes @anwai98 (#793)
• Update README.md @constantinpape (#871)
• Create RELEASE_OVERVIEW.md @anwai98 (#867)
• Update LM generalist scripts @anwai98 (#822)
• Refactor model export for training scripts @constantinpape (#864)
• Minor update to automatic segmentation mode defaults in CLI @anwai98 (#863)
• Add CLI for training SAM @anwai98 (#860)
• Add garbage collection after commit and clear annotations @anwai98 (#789)
• Extend support for GUI training on RGB images @anwai98 (#859)
• Extend automatic segmentation CLI to allow continuing annotation @anwai98 (#858)
• Minor updates to benchmarking CLI with new LM datasets @anwai98 (#861)
• Add scripts for promptable segmentation using weak labels @anwai98 (#857)

v1.2.2 🌈

Changes

• Update __version__.py @constantinpape (#856)
• Extend support for automatic seg functionality to return embeddings @anwai98 (#855)
• Minor updates to example script docs @anwai98 (#854)
• Allow flexible post-processing for larger segmentations @anwai98 (#853)

v1.2.1 🌈

This release implements several changes that are part of three of our recent publications that are built on top of micro_sam:

• medico-sam, which improves SAM for medical images
• peft-sam, which investigates parameter efficient finetuning for SAM
• patho-sam, which improves SAM for histopathology

Changes

• Prepare release 1.2.1 @constantinpape (#852)
• Parallel AIS implementation @constantinpape (#851)
• Disable GUI tests on Linux @constantinpape (#849)
• Add histopathology whole-slide image sample image @anwai98 (#848)
• Minor update to make rank optional in peft class @anwai98 (#846)
• Add support for tiling window in evaluation scripts @anwai98 (#844)
• Minor update to support peft kwargs in qualitative comparsion scripts @anwai98 (#845)
• Minor updates to UNETR model function @anwai98 (#843)
• Fix QLoRA weights and bias initialisation @caroteu (#833)
• Add medical imaging models to model registry @anwai98 (#841)
• Update dice weight constraints for flexible loss weighting @anwai98 (#839)
• Expose out_channels arguments for get_unetr function @anwai98 (#838)
• Add support for histopathology models @anwai98 (#834)
• Simplify logic for metric choice @anwai98 (#831)
• Extend dice score metric for multi-dim segmentation @anwai98 (#829)
• Add support for larger SAM models for 3d semantic segmentation @anwai98 (#827)
• Add QLoRA @anwai98 (#820)
• Minor update to prompt-based segmentation @anwai98 (#825)
• Minor fix to release overview doc @anwai98 (#821)
• Add release notes to doc @anwai98 (#819)

v1.2.0 🌈

Version 1.2.0

The main changes in this version are:

• Installation using only conda-forge dependencies and simplified installation instructions (on Linux and Mac OS)
• Fix annotation in napari widgets with scale factors thanks to @psobolewskiPhD
• Support for several parameter-efficient training methods thanks to @caroteu and @anwai98

Changes

• Bump to version 1.2.0 @constantinpape (#816)
• Merge dev into master @constantinpape (#815)
• Update conda environments and CI @constantinpape (#814)
• Allow flexible choice between metrics for grid-search @anwai98 (#812)
• Refactor peft test @constantinpape (#810)
• Add SSF method @anwai98 (#727)
• Minor update to interactive multi-dim segmentation functionality @anwai98 (#802)
• Add AdaptFormer @caroteu (#741)
• Add logo to doc @anwai98 (#809)
• [Enh] Handle segmenting image layers that have non-1 layer.scale @psobolewskiPhD (#804)
• Add SAM export scripts in bioengine format @anwai98 (#803)
• Update start_page.md @constantinpape (#807)
• Update README.md @constantinpape (#806)
• Minor fix to caching embeddings in AIS evaluation @anwai98 (#800)
• Upstream dev with master @anwai98 (#799)
• Minor update to path for storing iterative prompting results @anwai98 (#797)
• Add tooltip mentions in FAQ section @anwai98 (#796)
• Minor fix to finetuning UI tooltip @anwai98 (#795)
• Ensure segmentation data type after connected components @anwai98 (#783)
• Fix choice of automatic segmentation mode in CLI @anwai98 (#788)
• Minor update to avoid caching embeddings in evaluation @anwai98 (#782)
• Add example script for automatic segmentation @anwai98 (#781)
• Minor fix to casting masks in AMG post-processing @anwai98 (#780)
• Add documentation for micro-sam CLIs @anwai98 (#777)
• Minor fixes to automatic segmentation notebook @anwai98 (#779)
• Add LoRA scaling factor @caroteu (#770)
• Remove merge conflict artifacts @anwai98 (#774)
• Fix automatic segmentation CLI - return tiling window segmeter @anwai98 (#767)
• Update workshop @constantinpape (#764)
• Fix training UI @anwai98 (#763)
• Make caching embeddings optional for evaluation scripts @anwai98 (#759)
• Add latest release overview to doc @anwai98 (#761)
• Add suggestion to transfer downloaded checkpoints and rename filenames @anwai98 (#758)
• Add release overview to doc @anwai98 (#757)
• Updates for the workshop @constantinpape (#755)
• Minor updates to finetuning notebook @anwai98 (#753)
• Minor updates to workshop documents @anwai98 (#752)

v1.1.1 🌈

Release 1.1.1

Fixing minor issues with 1.1.0 and enabling pytorch 2.5 support.

Changes

• Update __version__.py @constantinpape (#749)
• Update workshop notes @constantinpape (#750)
• Doc and workshop updates @constantinpape (#746)
• Update build_installers.yaml @constantinpape (#748)
• Update build_installers.yaml @constantinpape (#747)

v1.1.0 🌈

Version 1.1.0

micro_sam is a tool for microscopy image segmentation based on Segment Anything model.

This version introduces several improvements:

• Compatibility with napari >= 0.5
• CLI for automatic instance segmentation
• Initial support for parameter efficient finetuning and automatic 2d/3d semantic segmentation (not available via the napari plugin yet, but part of the python library)
• And several other minor improvements and bugfixes

Changes

• Bump to version 1.1 @constantinpape (#745)
• Changes for release 1.1 @constantinpape (#744)
• Add materials for hands-on workshops @anwai98 (#742)
• Disable thread workers @constantinpape (#739)
• Fix link to the finetuning notebook in doc @anwai98 (#743)
• Updates to the image series annotator @constantinpape (#738)
• Expose is_seg_dataset argument in sam dataset @anwai98 (#736)
• Add CLI for benchmarking datasets on SAM models @anwai98 (#728)
• Add dry run for loaders to check for valid instances @anwai98 (#705)
• Minor update to ignore warnings in train_sam functionality @anwai98 (#722)
• Update docs - add hints on starting napari @anwai98 (#724)
• Add recommendations in finetuning notebook @anwai98 (#720)
• Expose kwargs to allow changing peft module arguments @anwai98 (#718)
• Add selective peft methods @anwai98 (#708)
• Update dropout defaults for FacT finetuning method @anwai98 (#714)
• Overwrite keybindings of prompt layers @constantinpape (#711)
• Extend iterative prompt generators to return prompts for 3d @anwai98 (#692)
• Napari updates @constantinpape (#710)
• Revert "Fix clearing shape layer" @constantinpape (#709)
• Fix clearing shape layer @constantinpape (#696)
• Add section in FAQ for passing custom model weights @anwai98 (#707)
• Add tests for automatic segmentation function @anwai98 (#702)
• Add automatic segmentation cli @anwai98 (#699)
• Update yaml files - pin napari < 0.5 @anwai98 (#694)
• Fix livecell top-level finetuning script - adapt with new peft changes @anwai98 (#691)
• Add nifty pin to yaml files @anwai98 (#688)
• Minor update to move edge-related attributes to border @anwai98 (#689)
• Minor update to peft kwargs in SAM wrappers @anwai98 (#686)
• Add FaCT Finetuning for SAM @anwai98 (#682)
• Update the python versions in test matrix @constantinpape (#685)
• Add LoRA support to LIVECell finetuning scripts @anwai98 (#681)
• Minor updates to resource efficient finetuning experiments @anwai98 (#665)
• Minor fix to label transform function in finetuning notebook @anwai98 (#677)
• Add livecell lora plots @anwai98 (#674)
• Fix issue in AIS precomputation and extend training functionality @constantinpape (#673)
• Fix issue with dtypes that leads to integer overflow in committing @constantinpape (#671)
• Add plotting scripts for AIS experiments @anwai98 (#666)
• Remove disconnected objects after AMG @constantinpape (#668)
• Update docstrings to document recent functionalities @anwai98 (#664)
• Add AIS benchmarking scripts @anwai98 (#657)
• Minor update to input checking for training functionality @anwai98 (#663)
• Add min-size to training and fix other issues @constantinpape (#658)
• Add weighting to dice loss in semantic trainer @anwai98 (#656)
• Add timing outputs @constantinpape (#655)
• Minor refactor to LoRA model initialization in get_trainable_sam_model @anwai98 (#654)
• Refactor resource efficient finetuning scripts @anwai98 (#653)
• Fix bug in precompute for 3d data @constantinpape (#649)
• Api cleanup @constantinpape (#648)
• Minor fix to trainable sam model functionality @anwai98 (#646)
• Add simple 3d wrapper and enable freezing the encoder in sam 3d wrapper @constantinpape (#645)
• Add SemanticSam3dLogger @anwai98 (#643)
• 636 enhance 3d image processing based on ma sam @lufre1 (#639)
• Minor fix to loading incompatible layers @anwai98 (#641)
• Minor update to loading models @anwai98 (#640)
• Add SemanticSamTrainer @anwai98 (#637)
• Add LoRA Implementation @anwai98 (#611)
• Minor update to default rescaling params in resizerawtrafo @anwai98 (#635)
• Add SimpleSamTrainer @anwai98 (#631)
• Add mentions for annotating 3D RGB volumes @anwai98 (#629)
• Remove device input for TrainableSAM @anwai98 (#632)
• Add MedSAM Reimplementation @anwai98 (#612)
• Add PanNuke specialist finetuning @anwai98 (#622)
• Upstream dev with master @anwai98 (#624)
• Add progressbar to pooch download @constantinpape (#623)
• Update docs @constantinpape (#621)

v1.0.1 🌈

Changes

• Bump to 101 @constantinpape (#620)
• Update installation.md @constantinpape (#617)
• Update modelzoo urls @constantinpape (#619)
• Update notebooks - extend descriptions @anwai98 (#609)
• PyPI deployment (so micro-sam can be listed on napari-hub) @GenevieveBuckley (#606)
• Fix bug in ais state caching @constantinpape (#608)
• adapted code to fit to the new os-specific construct.yaml files @lufre1 (#605)
• 541 windows installer error @lufre1 (#593)
• Minor update to notebook docs @anwai98 (#602)
• Finalize inference and evaluation notebook with all functionalities @anwai98 (#600)
• Update napari.yaml, include napari-hub category labels @GenevieveBuckley (#599)
• Update links in notebooks and minor fixes @anwai98 (#598)
• Add more video links, clean up doc @constantinpape (#594)
• Update inference and evaluation notebook @anwai98 (#597)
• Update dataset mention for tracking specialist @anwai98 (#596)
• Fix pyqt error on macos-14 (macos-latest) @GenevieveBuckley (#595)
• Update FAQ: add resource and finetuning suggestions @anwai98 (#591)
• Minor doc fix in finetuning directory @anwai98 (#592)
• Add scripts for model uploads to zenodo @anwai98 (#587)
• Add zenodo links to all finetuned models @anwai98 (#589)
• Doc updates v10 @constantinpape (#588)
• Update inference time benchmarking plots @anwai98 (#579)
• Add batched inference and evaluation notebook @anwai98 (#586)
• Update evaluation functions for optional verbose @anwai98 (#585)
• Minor update to suggestion for running evaluation scripts @anwai98 (#584)
• Update dataset mention in notebooks @anwai98 (#583)
• Update paths in documentation and minor touch-ups @anwai98 (#580)
• Full bioimageio integration @constantinpape (#569)
• Update contributing.md @constantinpape (#582)
• corrected typo in python library.md and updated installer isntaructio… @lufre1 (#581)
• Finalize documentation @constantinpape (#568)

v1.0.0: Stable Napari Tool and Library

Post release to include minor changes, especialy UI fixes.

Changes

• Update __version__.py @constantinpape (#578)
• Add experimental scripts for AIS with tiling @anwai98 (#485)
• Minor touch-up to finetuning directory @anwai98 (#577)
• Document and refactor the plotting scripts dir @anwai98 (#576)
• Refactor plots with feedback @anwai98 (#554)
• added windows installer logo.ico and changed paths accordingly @lufre1 (#575)
• Show window for empty automatic segmentation results @constantinpape (#574)
• Adding doc for using samplers in finetuning @anwai98 (#571)
• Move suggestions and limitations to FAQ section @anwai98 (#567)