Title
Detecting Filopodia With Wavelets
Abstract
Our problem is to automatically detect and measure from images the length and number of microscopic hair-like structures (filopodia) emanating from the tip of growing nerve processes. The objects of interest are relatively long and thin, so a good edge-detection algorithm helps to separate the filopodia from the background. Since a common claim about the wavelet transform is that it splits images into an approximation and details, which contain edges, we use it in our experiments. This paper studies the edge detecting characteristics of the 2-D discrete wavelet transform, and compares it to other common edge-detection methods for filopodia detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693517
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-11, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
biology,wavelet transforms,wavelet transform,edge detection,image segmentation,detectors,microscopy,gray scale,discrete wavelet transform,computer science,edge detection algorithm,length measurement
Computer vision,Computer science,Edge detection,Length measurement,Image segmentation,Discrete wavelet transform,Artificial intelligence,Filopodia,Grayscale,Wavelet,Wavelet transform
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0271-4302
2
0.67
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Evelyn Brannock1194.65
Michael Weeks213016.29
V. Rehder320.67