Title :
Low frame rate cell tracking: A Delaunay graph matching approach
Author :
Chen, Yuxi ; Quelhas, Pedro ; Campilho, Aurélio
Author_Institution :
INEB-Inst. de Eng. Biomedica, Porto, Portugal
fDate :
March 30 2011-April 2 2011
Abstract :
Cell tracking is a fundamental problem for studying live cell dynamics. A novel approach for low frame rate cell tracking in fluorescent microscopy image is herein proposed. The method is based on sliding band filter detection and Delaunay triangulation sub-graph matching. With this approach we can track a large amount of small cells without their motion model and not relying on cell motion continuity between consecutive images. The effectiveness and robustness of the method were validated by visual inspection and on a ground truth dataset.
Keywords :
biological techniques; cellular biophysics; fluorescence; mesh generation; object tracking; Delaunay graph matching; fluorescent microscopy; live cell dynamics; low frame rate cell tracking; sliding band filter detection; Image edge detection; Microscopy; Pixel; Target tracking; Trajectory; Cell tracking; Delaunay graph matching; low frame rate tracking; small target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4127-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7928
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872573