A robust algorithm for segmenting and tracking clustered cells in time-lapse fluorescent microscopy

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 862-869

  Tarnawski, Wojciech ^a,b   Kurtcuoglu, Vartan ^c   Lorek, Paweł ^d   Bodych, Marcin ^b   Rotter, Jan ^b   Muszkieta, Monika ^a   Piwowar, Łukasz ^d   Poulikakos, Dimos ^e   Majkowski, Michał ^d   Ferrari, Aldo ^e  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Vratis Ltd   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell segmentation and tracking; Ellipse fitting; Fluorescent microscopy; Multiphase active contours

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CELL SEGMENTATION; ELLIPSE FITTING; ELLIPSE FITTING METHOD; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRACKING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRACKING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84885165934     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2262233     Document Type: Article

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