Neural Cellular Automata Background
• Growing Neural Cellular Automata (Mordvintsev et al.)
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/?ref=https://githubhelp.com 

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