Segmenting and tracking fluorescent cells in dynamic 3-D microscopy with coupled active surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1396-1410

  Dufour, Alexandre ^a,b   Shinin, Vasily ^a   Tajbakhsh, Shahragim ^a   Guillén Aghion, Nancy ^a   Olivo Marin, Jean Christophe ^a   Zimmer, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cell biology; Cell migration; Deformable models; Fluorescence; Level sets; Segmentation; Three dimensional (3 D); Tracking

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SET THEORY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CELL BIOLOGY; CELL MIGRATION; COUPLED ACTIVE SURFACES; DEFORMABLE MODELS; FLUORESCENT CELLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACKING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 26444456033     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.852790     Document Type: Article

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