Integrating multi-scale blob/curvilinear detector techniques and multilevel sets for automated segmentation of stem cell images

  • Authors:

  • Huiming Peng;Xiaobo Zhou;Fuhai Li;Xiaofeng Xia;Stephen T. C. Wong

  • Affiliations:

  • Center for Biotechn. and Informatics, The Methodist Hospital Res. Institute and Dept. of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX and School of Mathematics and ...;Center for Biotechn. and Informatics, The Methodist Hosp. Res. Inst. and Dept. of Radiology, The Methodist Hosp., Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas and Res. Division, Dept. of Radiology, The Me ...;Center for Biotechn. and Informatics, The Methodist Hosp. Res. Inst. and Dept. of Radiology, The Methodist Hosp., Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas and Res. Division, Dept. of Radiology, The Me ...;Center for Biotechn. and Inf., The Methodist Hospital Res. Inst. and Dept. of Radiology, The Methodist Hosp., Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas and Res. Division, Dept. of Radiology, The Method ...;Center for Biotechn. and Inf., The Methodist Hospital Res. Inst. and Dept. of Radiology, The Methodist Hosp., Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas and Res. Division, Dept. of Radiology, The Method ...

  • Venue:
  • ISBI'09 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Studies of differentiation abilities of stem cells have been attracting a lot of attention over the last years. Microscopy can be used to record details of the differentiation process of stem cells under different perturbations and is an important tool for studying stem cell differentiation. Since it is infeasible to quantitatively analyze a huge amount of image data manually, automated image analysis systems are urgently needed. However, the complicated morphological appearances of stem cells are challenging to the existing segmentation methods. Herein, we propose a new, automated scheme for stem cell segmentation. This scheme first uses the multi-scale blob and curvilinear structure detectors to delineate the skeletons of stem cells quickly and then segment out stem cells by refining the skeletons to the cell boundaries using multi-level sets. The initial experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.