TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic segmentation of neurons from fluorescent microscopy imaging
AU - Baglietto, Silvia
AU - Kepiro, Ibolya E.
AU - Hilgen, Gerrit
AU - Sernagor, Evelyne
AU - Murino, Vittorio
AU - Sona, Diego
N1 - The research received financial support from the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Commision, Grant agreement no. 600847: RENVISION project of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Automatic detection and segmentation of neurons from microscopy acquisition is essential for statistically characterizing neuron morphology that can be related to their functional role. In this paper, we propose a combined pipeline that starts from the automatic detection of the soma through a new multiscale blob enhancement filtering. Then, a precise segmentation of the detected cell body is obtained by an active contour approach. The resulted segmentation is used as initial seed for the second part of the approach that proposes a dendrite arborization tracing method.
AB - Automatic detection and segmentation of neurons from microscopy acquisition is essential for statistically characterizing neuron morphology that can be related to their functional role. In this paper, we propose a combined pipeline that starts from the automatic detection of the soma through a new multiscale blob enhancement filtering. Then, a precise segmentation of the detected cell body is obtained by an active contour approach. The resulted segmentation is used as initial seed for the second part of the approach that proposes a dendrite arborization tracing method.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049729760&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94806-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94806-5_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049729760
SN - 9783319948058
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 121
EP - 133
BT - Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - 10th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2017, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Ali, Hesham H.
A2 - Peixoto, Nathalia
A2 - Silveira, Margarida
A2 - van den Broek, Egon L.
A2 - Maciel, Carlos
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2017
Y2 - 21 February 2017 through 23 February 2017
ER -