Title
A fast and automated framework for extraction of nuclei from cluttered 3D images in fluorescence microscopy
Abstract
Confocal fluorescence microscopy has become a standard tool to image thick 3D tissue samples, permitting the observation of cell behaviour, such as cell division within developing organs. However, robust and automatic extraction of nuclear shape and mitotic orientation may be hindered by a highly cluttered environment as for example in mammalian tissues. We propose a fast and automated framework for the segmentation of nuclei from cluttered 3D images, allowing robust quantification of various parameters such as number of cells, number of mitoses and mitotic orientation. We have applied this framework to scans of the developing mouse heart, and manual validation on three independent experiments indicates a detection rate of 93% in all cases. Moreover, the proposed tool permits fast, real-time 3D rendering of the data set during the analysis, and can be easily adapted to other applications related to dense tissue analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872830
Chicago, IL
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological tissues,biomedical optical imaging,cardiology,cellular biophysics,fluorescence,image segmentation,medical image processing,optical microscopy,automated framework,automatic extraction,cell behaviour,cell division,cluttered 3D images,confocal fluorescence microscopy,image thick 3D tissue samples,mammalian tissues,mitoses,mitotic orientation,mouse heart,nuclei extraction,nuclei segmentation,organs,real-time 3D rendering,3D segmentation,active meshes,cell division analysis,organ development
Computer vision,Fluorescence microscope,Cellular biophysics,Mouse Heart,Pattern recognition,3D rendering,Segmentation,Computer science,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Microscopy,Confocal
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-4128-0
978-1-4244-4128-0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
6
8