An automatic method for robust and fast cell detection in bright field images from high-throughput microscopy

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Buggenthin, Felix ^a   Marr, Carsten ^a   Schwarzfischer, Michael ^a   Hoppe, Philipp S ^a,c   Hilsenbeck, Oliver ^a   Schroeder, Timm ^a,c   Theis, Fabian J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; BRIGHT-FIELD MICROSCOPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HIGH-CONTENT SCREENING; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; PARAMETER ADJUSTMENTS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; TIME-LAPSE MICROSCOPY;

AUTOMATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; STEM CELLS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84884929912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-297     Document Type: Article

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