Cell microscopic segmentation with spiking neuron networks

  • Authors:
  • Boudjelal Meftah;Olivier Lezoray;Michel Lecluse;Abdelkader Benyettou

  • Affiliations:
  • Equipe EDTEC, Université de Mascara, Mascara, Algérie;Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, GREYC UMR CNRS, Caen, France;Service d'anatomie et de cytologie pathologiques, Centre Hospitalier Public du Cotentin, Cherbourg-Octeville, France;Laboratoire Signal Image et Parole, Université Mohamed Boudiaf, Oran, Algérie

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'10 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Artificial neural networks: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Spiking Neuron Networks (SNNs) overcome the computational power of neural networks made of thresholds or sigmoidal units. Indeed, SNNs add a new dimension, the temporal axis, to the representation capacity and the processing abilities of neural networks. In this paper, we present how SNN can be applied with efficacy for cell microscopic image segmentation. Results obtained confirm the validity of the approach. The strategy is performed on cytological color images. Quantitative measures are used to evaluate the resulting segmentations.