Measuring Shape and Motion of White Blood Cells from Sequences of Fluorescence Microscopy Images
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چکیده
We describe an image analysis system developed to measure the motion of white blood cells from a temporal sequence of uorescence microscopy images. A two-pass spatio-temporal segmentation system is proposed. Pixels are classied as cell and background pixels by an initial segmen-tation in the rst pass. Region labeling, correction and cell tracking are done in the second pass. After segmentation, shape features are estimated from discrete regions, and cell motion is then measured by using the shape features. A supervised method based on the shape features is used to evaluate the results of the segmentation.
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An Image Analysis System for Measuring Shape and Motion of White Blood Cells from a Sequence of Fluorescence Microscopy Images
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