• DocumentCode
    1820639
  • Title

    Can voronoi diagram model cell geometries in early sea-urchin embryogenesis?

  • Author

    Luengo-Oroz, M.A. ; Duloquin, L. ; Castro, C. ; Savy, T. ; Faure, E. ; Lombardot, B. ; Bourgine, P. ; Peyrieras, N. ; Santos, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Biomed. Image Technol. Lab., Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    14-17 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    504
  • Lastpage
    507
  • Abstract
    We test the hypothesis that cell membranes in early sea- urchin embryos can be modeled as a Voronoi diagram from nuclei centers. In order to obtain a model of the cell geometry against which to test our Voronoi model hypothesis, we developed a viscous watershed framework that allows segmenting 3D images of living sea-urchin embryos obtained by biphoton laser scanning microscopy. Measurements of the differences between segmented cells and the Voronoi model, show an interesting high correlation that can serve for developing more accurate methods of segmentation and modelling cell geometries.
  • Keywords
    biomembranes; cellular biophysics; computational geometry; image segmentation; optical microscopy; 3D image segmentation; Voronoi diagram; biphoton laser scanning microscopy; cell geometries; cell membranes; sea urchin embryogenesis; Biomembranes; Cells (biology); Embryo; Geometrical optics; Geometry; Image segmentation; Laser modes; Microscopy; Solid modeling; Testing; Microscopy; biological cells; image segmentation; morphological operations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2002-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2003-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541043
  • Filename
    4541043