Table 1:

Computational speed comparison for different methods

Method name	Computation time	Total time	System configuration
Watershed algorithm	File loading – 3 seconds; Processing time ~ 7 seconds	10 seconds	i7 - 8700K CPU @3.7 GHz – 6 core processor, 64 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 - 8GB graphics card
AI-enabled segmentation	Running time after training ~ 6 seconds	6 seconds	i7 - 8700K CPU @3.7 GHz – 6 core processor, 64 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 - 8GB graphics card
Our algorithm	2D segmentation ~ 1 second Remaining process ~ 1 second	2 seconds per cell utilizing a single-core processor. It can be sped up by parallel processors	i5 -7200 @ 2.7 GHz, 16 GB RAM