100: Neural Cellular Automata, Part 2
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NCA High Resolution Medical Image Segmentation Networks
• MED-NCA: Bio-inspired medical image segmentation (Kalkhof et al.)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841525001483
• Med-NCA: Robust and lightweight segmentation with neural cellular automata (Kalkhof et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03473
• M3D-NCA: Robust 3D segmentation with built-in quality control (Kalkhof et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.02954
NCA for Medical Image Registration
• NCA-Morph: Medical image registration with neural cellular automata (Ranem et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22265
Efficient NCA Inference
• OctreeNCA: Single-pass 184 MP segmentation on consumer hardware (Lemke et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06993
• eNCApsulate: NCA for precision diagnosis on capsule endoscopes (Krumb et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.21562
Edge & Federated Learning with NCA
• Unsupervised training of neural cellular automata on edge devices (Kalkhof et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.18114
• Equitable federated learning with NCA (Lemke and Konstantin et al.)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21735