Biological cell tracking with implicit active contours: preventing object fusions

Marion Feral; Christophe Zimmer; Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

doi:10.1117/12.478002

9 July 2003 Biological cell tracking with implicit active contours: preventing object fusions

Marion Feral, Christophe Zimmer, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Proceedings Volume 4964, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing X; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478002
Event: Biomedical Optics, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Implicit active contour method are a powerful technique for segmentation and tracking of mobile objects such as biological cells observed in videomicroscopy. However, the lack of control on the topology changes in this approach often leads to undesirable contour fusions when previously distinct objects enter in close contact. To overcome this limitation, we propose to modulate the current image by a "ridge" which discourages contour motion towards neighboring objects, thus inhibiting contour fusions. We show applications of this method on both synthetic images and real images from cellular imaging.

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Marion Feral, Christophe Zimmer, and Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin "Biological cell tracking with implicit active contours: preventing object fusions", Proc. SPIE 4964, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing X, (9 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478002

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