DocumentCode
1822552
Title
Automated Cell Apoptosis Characterization using Active Contours
Author
Doukas, C.N. ; Maglogiannis, I.
Author_Institution
Univ. of the Aegean, Samos
fYear
2007
fDate
22-26 Aug. 2007
Firstpage
812
Lastpage
815
Abstract
Programmed cell death, also known as apoptosis, is of fundamental importance in many biological processes and also highly associated with serious diseases like cancer and HIV. The current paper presents an innovative method for apoptosis phenomenon characterization based on apoptotic cell quantification and detection using active contours (snakes). Evaluation results against manual counts have proved the high accuracy and efficiency of the developed method.
Keywords
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; cellular biophysics; medical image processing; HIV; active contours; apoptotic cell detection; apoptotic cell quantification; automated cell apoptosis; cancer; programmed cell death; snakes; Active contours; Biomedical imaging; Cancer; Cells (biology); Chemicals; DNA; Data mining; Diseases; Human immunodeficiency virus; Microscopy; Animals; Apoptosis; Cells, Cultured; HIV Infections; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Microscopy, Video; Neoplasms; Software;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Lyon
ISSN
1557-170X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-0787-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352414
Filename
4352414
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