Title
Detection of fungal spores in 3D microscopy images of macroscopic areas of host tissue
Abstract
The measurement of variation in characteristics of an organism is referred to as phenotyping, and using image data to extract phenotypes is a rapidly developing area in biological research. For studying host-pathogen interactions, 3D microscopy data can provide useful information about mechanisms of infection and defense. Performing research on a fungal pathogen of a plant, we recently developed methods to image and combine multiple fields of view of microscopy data across a macroscopic scale. This study was focused on using macroscopic microscopy data to digitally extract the top epidermal cell layer of plant leaves and to count the number of fungal spores on the epidermis. This was achieved using an active surface approach to estimate the 3D position of the epidermis and a shape-template matching approach to detect spores. A compact shape representation is proposed to model spore shapes and generate candidate templates for detecting spores. Our experiments show results that indicate strong promise for the proposed approach in studying plant-fungal interactions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/BIBM.2016.7822564
2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spore Detection,Confocal Microscopy,Macroscopic Microscopy
Computer vision,Biological system,Biology,Spore,Artificial intelligence,Microscopy,Macroscopic scale,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2156-1125
978-1-5090-1612-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abhishek Kolagunda1246.28
Randall Wisser211.83
Timothy Chaya310.82
Jeffrey Caplan410.82
Chandra Kambhamettu585880.83