Title :
Lasso-watershed algorithm used to identify individual cells undergoing autophagy in immunofluorescent microscopic images
Author :
Junfeng Lu ; Wen-qiang Lu ; Binfeng Lu
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Cryogenics, Chem. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, a method called lasso-watershed algorithm is used to help digitally recognize cells and separate their areas from the background of fluorescent microscopic images. The algorithm has achieved about 90% accuracy of cellular discrimination.
Keywords :
fluorescence; image colour analysis; medical image processing; autophagy; cellular discrimination; immunofiuorescent microscopic images; lasso-watershed algorithm; Aging; Cancer; Fluorescence; Head; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Microscopy; color segmentation; fluoresence microscopy; image processing; lasso; watershed;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2011 Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-180-9
DOI :
10.1109/FSKD.2011.6019880
