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This paper proposes a novel method for segmenting microscope images of schisotsomiasis. Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease with a global impact second only to malaria. Automated analysis of the parasite’s reaction to drug therapy enables high-throughput drug discovery. These reactions take the form of phenotypic changes that are currently evaluated manually via a researcher viewing the video and assigning phenotypes. The proposed method is capable of handling the unique challenges of this task including the complex set of morphological, appearance-based, motion-based, and behavioral changes of parasites caused by putative drug therapy. This approach adapts a region-based segmentation algorithm designed to quickly identify the background of an image. This modified implementation along with morphological post-processing provides accurate and efficient segmentation results. The results of this algorithm improve the correctness of automated phenotyping and provide promise for high-throughput drug screening.
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Moody-Davis, A., Mennillo, L., Singh, R. (2011). Region-Based Segmentation of Parasites for High-throughput Screening. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6938. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24028-7_5
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