Title :
Intelligent techniques for image segmentation in cell tracking and mobility analysis
Author :
Aly, Ashraf A. ; Bin Deris, Safaai ; Zaki, Nazar
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
Abstract :
Segmentation and tracking of cells is important step in cell motility studies. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed powerful methods for detecting and tracking the living cells. To improve the overall living cells tracking systems performance, we focused on developing a novel algorithm for image processing. This paper presents novel image segmentation and tracking system technique to incorporate the advantages of both Topological Alignments and snakes. Where the initial segmentation by Topological Alignments is firstly transformed into the input of the snake model and begins its evolvement to the interested object boundary and analyzes the cells mobility. In our experiments, we compared our algorithm with traditional snake. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves accurate tracking for detecting and analyzing the mobility of the living cells. Our results indicate better segmentation and more accurate tracking for detecting and analyzing the mobility of the living cells. We have achieved better tracking and detecting for the cells, also dealing with under and over segmentation.
Keywords :
biology computing; cell motility; image motion analysis; image segmentation; cell motility studies; image segmentation; intelligent techniques; living cells tracking systems; mobility analysis; snake model; topological alignments; Accuracy; Active contours; Image segmentation; Imaging; Shape; Tracking; Cell tracking; active contour; segmentation enhancement; topological alignments;
Conference_Titel :
Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Abu Dhabi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0311-9
DOI :
10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893846