3D CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY DATA ANALYSIS USING LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION WITH ALPHA DIVERGENCE SIMILARITY MEASURE

Leila Meziou, Aymeric Histace, Frédéric Precioso, Bogdan J. Matuszewski, Franck Carreiras

2012

Abstract

Segmentation of cellular structures is of primary interest in cell imaging for a 3D reconstruction of cell shape. Such an analysis provides crucial information about cell morphology and is instrumental in understanding of biological processes leading to development of a particular pathology. The work presented in this paper reports on a novel method for segmentation of cellular structures (nuclei and cell boundaries) from 3D single channel actin tagged fluorescence confocal microscopy images. The proposed segmentation method uses histogram-based image similarity measure in a level-set active-contour framework. The novelty of the method is in application of the alpha-divergence distance measure which can be seen as a generalization of classic Kullback-Leibler and c2 measures. The resulting alpha-divergence level-set formulation leads to a single front evolution formula for both nuclei and cell boundaries segmentation, with no requirements for any enhancement or preprocessing of acquired cell images (a monolayer of human cells (PNT2) culture).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Meziou L., Histace A., Precioso F., J. Matuszewski B. and Carreiras F. (2012). 3D CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY DATA ANALYSIS USING LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION WITH ALPHA DIVERGENCE SIMILARITY MEASURE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 405-409. DOI: 10.5220/0003820004050409

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Leila Meziou and Aymeric Histace and Frédéric Precioso and Bogdan J. Matuszewski and Franck Carreiras},
title={3D CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY DATA ANALYSIS USING LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION WITH ALPHA DIVERGENCE SIMILARITY MEASURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={405-409},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003820004050409},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - 3D CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY DATA ANALYSIS USING LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION WITH ALPHA DIVERGENCE SIMILARITY MEASURE
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Meziou L.
AU - Histace A.
AU - Precioso F.
AU - J. Matuszewski B.
AU - Carreiras F.
PY - 2012
SP - 405
EP - 409
DO - 10.5220/0003820004050409