학술논문

3D+t Morphological Processing: Applications to Embryogenesis Image Analysis.
Document Type
Article
Source
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Aug2012, Vol. 21 Issue 8, p3518-3530. 13p.
Subject
*THREE-dimensional display systems
*IMAGE reconstruction
*IMAGE segmentation
*EMBRYOLOGY
*MATHEMATICAL morphology
*INFORMATION filtering systems
Language
ISSN
1057-7149
Abstract
We propose to directly process 3D+t image sequences with mathematical morphology operators, using a new classification of the 3D+t structuring elements. Several methods (filtering, tracking, segmentation) dedicated to the analysis of 3D+t datasets of zebrafish embryogenesis are introduced and validated through a synthetic dataset. Then, we illustrate the application of these methods to the analysis of datasets of zebrafish early development acquired with various microscopy techniques. This processing paradigm produces spatio-temporal coherent results as it benefits from the intrinsic redundancy of the temporal dimension, and minimizes the needs for human intervention in semi-automatic algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]