@inproceedings{95fc0967e5374c94b92146012aa7ab1f,
title = "Integrating multi-scale blob/curvilinear detector techniques and multilevel sets for automated segmentation of stem cell images",
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.",
keywords = "Blob detection, Cell segmentation, Curvilinear structure detection, Level set, Stem cell differentiation",
author = "Huiming Peng and Xiaobo Zhou and Fuhai Li and Xiaofeng Xia and Wong, {Stephen T.C.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193318",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424439324",
series = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009",
pages = "1362--1365",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
note = "2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009 ; Conference date: 28-06-2009 Through 01-07-2009",
}