Automated segmentation and tracking of non-rigid objects in time-lapse microscopy videos of polymorphonuclear neutrophils

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-51

  Brandes, Susanne ^a,b   Mokhtari, Zeinab ^a,b   Essig, Fabian ^a,c   Hünniger, Kerstin ^a   Kurzai, Oliver ^a,c   Figge, Marc Thilo ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polymorphonuclear neutrophils; Segmentation; Time lapse microscopy; Tracking of non rigid objects

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CYTOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR APPROACHES; NON-RIGID OBJECTS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR NEUTROPHILS; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING; SINGLE-CELL TRACKING; TIME-LAPSE MICROSCOPY;

CELLS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRACKING; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; MACHINE LEARNING; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; TRACKING ALGORITHM; CYTOLOGY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; PROCEDURES; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CELL TRACKING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 84920917100     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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