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Shape analysis and tracking of migrating macrophages

Solis-Lemus, J. A., Stramer, B., Slabaugh, G. G. & Reyes-Aldasoro, C. C. ORCID: 0000-0002-9466-2018 (2018). Shape analysis and tracking of migrating macrophages. 2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018), pp. 1006-1009. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2018.8363741

Abstract

Cell migration is important in many human processes of development and disease. In Cancer, migration can be related to metastasis or cell defects. A precise analysis of the cell shapes in biological studies could lead to insights about migration. Therefore, this paper describes an algorithm to iteratively segment, track and analyse the shape of macrophages from fluorescent microscopy image sequences. This process allows observation of shape variations as the cells migrate. The algorithm identifies and separates overlapping and non-overlapping cells, then for the non-overlapping cases analyses the shape and extracts a series of measurements, including the number of "corner" or pointy edges through a multiscale angle variation matrix, anglegram. The shape evolution algorithm was tested on fluorescently labelled macrophages observed on embryos of Drosophila melanogaster.

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Publisher Keywords: Shape evolution, active contours
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Computer Science > giCentre
School of Science & Technology > Engineering
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