“…With the introduction of conventional, synchrotron, and neutron micro-CT, datasets have become increasingly larger and more detailed, resulting in substantially longer post-processing times, in particular with respect to data segmentation 2,[4][5][6] With palaeontological material, where the density differences between the surrounding rock matrix and the fossil itself are usually low, manual image segmentation is often the only way to digitally extract the Regions of Interest (ROIs) from the CT slice stacks 7,8 . This process can take weeks to months to complete, thus being a considerable bottleneck in making data available for research.…”