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Signal Image Video Process. 2014 Dec 01;8(1):41-48. doi: 10.1007/s11760-014-0694-8.

Graph-regularized 3D shape reconstruction from highly anisotropic and noisy images.

Signal, image and video processing

Christian Widmer, Stephanie Heinrich, Philipp Drewe, Xinghua Lou, Shefali Umrania, Gunnar Rätsch

Affiliations

  1. Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York avenue, New York, NY, USA.
  2. Institute for Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 25866587 PMCID: PMC4389647 DOI: 10.1007/s11760-014-0694-8

Abstract

Analysis of microscopy images can provide insight into many biological processes. One particularly challenging problem is cellular nuclear segmentation in highly anisotropic and noisy 3D image data. Manually localizing and segmenting each and every cellular nucleus is very time-consuming, which remains a bottleneck in large-scale biological experiments. In this work, we present a tool for automated segmentation of cellular nuclei from 3D fluorescent microscopic data. Our tool is based on state-of-the-art image processing and machine learning techniques and provides a user-friendly graphical user interface. We show that our tool is as accurate as manual annotation and greatly reduces the time for the registration.

Keywords: 3D fluorescent microscopic data; Cell nuclei detection; Nuclear segmentation; Shape reconstruction

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