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We propose a novel weakly supervised method to improve the boundary of the 3D segmented nuclei utilizing an over-segmented image. This is motivated by the observation that current state-of-the-art deep learning methods do not result in…
We propose a 3D convolutional neural network to simultaneously segment and detect cell nuclei in confocal microscopy images. Mirroring the co-dependency of these tasks, our proposed model consists of two serial components: the first part…
Cell nuclei segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the analysis of biomedical images. With ever-growing sizes and amounts of three-dimensional images to be processed, there is a need for better and faster segmentation methods.…
The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching…
Accurate segmentation of 3-D cell nuclei in microscopy images is essential for the study of nuclear organization, gene expression, and cell morphodynamics. Current image segmentation methods are challenged by the complexity and variability…
We propose a cell segmentation method for analyzing images of densely clustered cells. The method combines the strengths of marker-controlled watershed transformation and a convolutional neural network (CNN). We demonstrate the method…
We consider the problem of accurately identifying cell boundaries and labeling individual cells in confocal microscopy images, specifically, 3D image stacks of cells with tagged cell membranes. Precise identification of cell boundaries,…
Cell segmentation and tracking in microscopy images are of great significance to new discoveries in biology and medicine. In this study, we propose a novel approach to combine cell segmentation and cell tracking into a unified end-to-end…
The quantitative analysis of cellular membranes helps understanding developmental processes at the cellular level. Particularly 3D microscopic image data offers valuable insights into cell dynamics, but error-free automatic segmentation…
Microscopy imaging plays a vital role in understanding many biological processes in development and disease. The recent advances in automation of microscopes and development of methods and markers for live cell imaging has led to rapid…
In this work, we describe a method for large-scale 3D cell-tracking through a segmentation selection approach. The proposed method is effective at tracking cells across large microscopy datasets on two fronts: (i) It can solve problems…
A systematic analysis of the cell behavior requires automated approaches for cell segmentation and tracking. While deep learning has been successfully applied for the task of cell segmentation, there are few approaches for simultaneous cell…
Fluorescence microscopy is an essential tool for the analysis of 3D subcellular structures in tissue. An important step in the characterization of tissue involves nuclei segmentation. In this paper, a two-stage method for segmentation of…
U-Net and its variants have been demonstrated to work sufficiently well in biological cell tracking and segmentation. However, these methods still suffer in the presence of complex processes such as collision of cells, mitosis and…
Segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopy images is a prevalent necessity in cell biology. Especially for three-dimensional datasets, manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming, motivating the need for automated methods.…
Imaging assays of cellular function, especially those using fluorescent stains, are ubiquitous in the biological and medical sciences. Despite advances in computer vision, such images are often analyzed using only manual or rudimentary…
Background Analyzing images to accurately estimate the number of different cell types in the brain using automatic methods is a major objective in neuroscience. The automatic and selective detection and segmentation of neurons would be an…
The automated analysis of microscopy images is a challenge in the context of single-cell tracking and quantification. This work has as goals the study of the performance of deep learning for segmenting microscopy images and the improvement…
Tracking living cells in video sequence is difficult, because of cell morphology and high similarities between cells. Tracking-by-detection methods are widely used in multi-cell tracking. We perform multi-cell tracking based on the cell…
Tracking of plant cells in images obtained by microscope is a challenging problem due to biological phenomena such as large number of cells, non-uniform growth of different layers of the tightly packed plant cells and cell division.…