Abstract
Time lapse video microscopy routinely produces terabyte sized biological image sequence collections, especially in high throughput environments, for unraveling cellular mechanisms, screening biomarkers, drug discovery, image-based bioinformatics, etc. Quantitative movement analysis of tissues, cells, organelles or molecules is one of the fundamental signals of biological importance. The accurate detection and segmentation of moving biological objects that are similar but non-homogeneous is the focus of this paper. The problem domain shares similarities with multimedia video analytics. The grayscale structure tensor fails to disambiguate between stationary and moving features without computing dense velocity fields (i.e. optical flow). In this paper we propose a novel motion detection algorithm based on the flux tensor combined with multi-feature level set-based segmentation, using an efficient additive operator splitting (AOS) numerical implementation, that robustly handles deformable motion of non-homogeneous objects. The flux tensor level set framework effectively handles biological video segmentation in the presence of complex biological processes, background noise and clutter.
Keywords
- Active Contour
- Structure Tensor
- Object Segmentation
- Time Lapse Video Microscopy
- Motion Detection Algorithm
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Palaniappan, K., Ersoy, I., Nath, S.K. (2007). Moving Object Segmentation Using the Flux Tensor for Biological Video Microscopy. In: Ip, H.HS., Au, O.C., Leung, H., Sun, MT., Ma, WY., Hu, SM. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2007. PCM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4810. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77255-2_63
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