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Gert Kootstra

Wageningen University & Research;

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Diffusion-Based Synthetic Pretraining for Root Segmentation in Rhizotron Images

Fengjiao Lu, Gert Kootstra, Zane K.J. Hartley, Rick van de Zedde, Michael P Pound, Viola Willemsen

This paper generates synthetic rhizotron images using diffusion models and shows that pretraining on these images improves root segmentation performance, especially when real annotations are limited.

bioRxiv · Nov 2, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology