Segmentation Tools
Brush Tool
The Brush Tool has two modes - 2D and 3D (toggled on the right-side panel). The 2D brush is a circle, and the 3D brush is a sphere that segments across slices. You can adjust the size of the brush using the slider in the right hand Context Panel or the W & S hotkeys.
Left click + drag to segment and right click + drag to erase.
Adaptive Brush
The Adaptive Brush automatically defines the edges of the structure you are annotating, resulting in a smarter and more accurate workflow.
The Adhesion parameter allows you to determine how "strict" the Adaptive Brush is with similar intensity values. A lower Adhesion value, for example, would be recommended for annotating regions or structures with smooth gradients, whereas a higher Adhesion value would be best for annotating with sharper gradients.
Adaptive Brush Mastery: we recommend adjusting your Windowing (and other Visualization) settings along with your Adhesion levels to ensure optimal brush behavior.
Pen Tool
The Pen Tool has two modes - 2D and 3D (toggled on the right-side panel). The Pen Tool allows you to annotate using a free-form contour. In 3D mode, the free-form contour is extruded above and below the current slice.
Left click + drag to add a segment region and Right click + drag to remove a region.
Region Growing (Grow Tool)
The Grow Tool is a semi-automated tool that uses image intensity information to segment regions. By clicking and holding in a region, the segmentation will grow outward from the point that you clicked on. The longer you hold, the longer the region will grow.
Left click + hold (+ drag) to segment, right click + hold (+ drag) to erase.
Contour Tool
The contour tool lets you interact with masks as contours. Interacting with masks as contours gives you special tools to create and edit annotations.
Creating a contour from scratch.
Select the contour tool, and click and drag on the canvas to draw a contour. To complete the contour, simply intersect the initial node or any other edge of the contour.
Editing existing masks as contours
Node edit. Select an existing mask and select the contour tool. When you hover over an edge, you will see a node with a "target spline" appear. You can drag this node to edit the "target spline" area interactively.
Edge redraw. You can redraw any edge by simply "overwriting" the edge by intersecting it two times.
Interpolate
You can interpolate between two masks using the Interpolate tool.
First, draw two masks on two different slices. These masks must be part of the same entity.
With the Interpolate tool, select the edges of both masks one by one.
You will see an interpolated annotation in between the masks.
Toggle Cineloop to see the slices and where the interpolated masks are.
Hole Filling Tool
The Hole Filling Tool iteratively fills small holes in your segmentation. Click anywhere on the canvas to start filling in small holes.
The Hole Filling Tool is designed to fill small holes. For larger holes, you may need to run the Hole Filling Tool more than once (i.e. click several times).
For large volumes, 3D hole filling can be very computationally expensive. If your data has more than 800 slices, we recommend only using 2D hole filling.
Paint Bucket Tool
The Paint Bucket is helpful for closing single large holes. With the paint bucket tool selected, click in any large hole to fill it automatically.
Island Removal Tool
Island Removal deletes "islands" of segmentations. Simply click on any island segmentation to remove it.
Conversely, you can enable Keep Currently Selected in the right hand Context Panel to remove all of the islands except the one you clicked on.
Boolean Operator Tool
The Boolean Operator Tool allows you to perform four operations on segmentations: Copy, Add, Subtract, and Merge.
Copy Tool
The Copy Tool allows you to transform a segmentation into a perfect copy of another.
With Segmentation X selected, enable the Copy Tool and click on Segmentation Y to create a perfect copy of Segmentation X that occupies the same space.
Add Tool
The Add Tool allows you to add the pixel values of a segmentation to another.
With Segmentation X selected, enable the Add Tool and click on Segmentation Y to add the pixel values of Segmentation Y to Segmentation X.
Subtract Tool
The Subtract Tool allows you to remove the pixel values of a segmentation from another segmentation.
With Segmentation X selected, enable the Subtract Tool and click on Segmentation Y to remove the pixel values of Segmentation Y from Segmentation X.
Merge Tool
The Merge Tool allows you to transform one type of segmentation island into another.
With Segmentation X selected, enable the Merge Tool and click on an island of Segmentation Y to merge the island to Segmentation X.
Fast Automated Segmentation Tool (F.A.S.T. ⚡️)
The Fast Automated Segmentation Tool (F.A.S.T.) is an automatic segmentation tool powered by Meta AI's Segment Anything Model that allows users to rapidly generate 2D and 3D segmentations.
F.A.S.T. is powerful because of the way users can prompt the tool to generate an accurate segmentation in real time. Under the hood, there are two components to the system:
Image encoding, which takes place on the server side. The result of image encoding is embeddings, which are special vector representations of the images that are useful for machine learning.
Segmentation decoding, which takes place in the browser in real time.
To enable F.A.S.T. for your team, please do the following:
Request access at https://redbrickai.com/fast.
Within a Project, navigate to the Tool Settings page and enable F.A.S.T.
Generating 2D Segmentations with F.A.S.T.
To start segmenting, create a segmentation instance, select the F.A.S.T. tool from the top bar or using cmd/ctrl + b. Once the tool is selected, hover over a viewport to start embedding computation for a single slice (you will see a loader spinner on the top right of the viewport). You can prompt F.A.S.T. in a few different ways after the embedding computation is complete:
Bounding Box prompts.
Click + move mouse + clickto draw a bounding box. You will see the segmentation prediction compute in real time while you draw the bounding box.Key point refinement. After you draw the bounding box, you can optionally refine the segmentation by prompting the system with key points.
Left clickto add regions you want to add to the segmentation.Right clickto remove regions from the segmentation prediction.Once you are happy with the segmentation preview, confirm it by using the button on the right panel or
shift + enter.
Instant click.
alt/option + hoverover objects to view a prediction preview. If you are satisfied with any preview, click while pressingalt/optionto confirm the segmentation.
Generating 3D Segmentations with F.A.S.T.
3D F.A.S.T. allows users to draw Bounding Boxes to define an interpolation range for a 3D structure that is to be annotated.
The process for creating annotations with 3D F.A.S.T. is extremely similar to that of 2D F.A.S.T. You can find a full step-by-step breakdown of how to use 3D F.A.S.T. below.
1. Create a new Instance of your desired Object Label by clicking on the “+” in the left hand toolbar;
2. Select F.A.S.T. in the top of the screen and wait for the embedding computation to complete on Slice X;
3. Create a Bounding Box around the structure you wish to annotate;
4. (Optional) Provide F.A.S.T. with additional input by using LMB/RMB;
5. Navigate to the end of the range that you want to interpolate across (i.e., Slice Y);
6. Repeat Step 3 (and optionally, Step 4) for the structure you wish to annotate on Slice Y;
7. Once you are satisfied with the annotations, press Enter or click on “Finalize” in the right hand toolbar to generate the pixel masks on every slice between Slice X and Slice Y.
Processing times may increase when interpolating across large ranges. However, please note that all subsequent work across the same range should be much faster, as the embedding computations only have to be computed once per slice.
Firewalls, ad blockers, privacy extensions, and any other browser extensions that block HTTP traffic are known to interfere with FAST.
Dilate & Erode Tool
The Dilate & Erode Tool allows you to expand or shrink the area of a segmentation.
With a segmentation selected, use left click to Dilate (grow) the area of the segmentation and right click to Erode (shrink).
Use the Pixels to Change slider in the right hand Context Panel to control the severity of the dilation or erosion.
Smoothing Tool
The Smoothing Tool helps you remove peaks and valleys in noisy annotations.
With the Smoothing Tool selected, use left click to remove valleys and right click to remove peaks.
Tool Configuration
Your labeler toolkit can be customized at the Project level by navigating to the Tool Settings page within your Project Settings.
Simply utilize the checkboxes for each tool to:
set a custom default tool;
restrict/enable 2D and/or 3D annotation;
set a default mode (i.e. 2D or 3D);
enable/disable a Tool entirely;
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