본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 미세세포 영상으로부터 셀을 자동 검출하고 계수하는 자동화 방법을 제시하였다. 셀 카운팅은 생물학 또는 병리학적 영상분석에 있어서 매우 중요한 과정이다. 과거에는 셀 카운팅은 수동적인 방법으로 진행되어 매우 지루하고 많은 시간을 필요로 하는 작업이었다. 이에 더하여 수동 계수 방법은 정확한 카운팅 결과를 도출하는데 어려움이 있었다. 따라서, 정확하고 일관된 셀 검출과 카운팅 결과를 생물학적인 영상으로부터 획득하기 위해서는 자동화방법이 필요하다. 제안된 다단계 셀 계수방법은 배양된 세포영상으로부터 셀을 자동으로 분할하고 분할된 셀의 위상학적 분석을 통하여 셀을 라벨링 한다. 셀 카운팅의 정확도를 높이기 위하여 워터쉐드 알고리듬에 의하여 서로 덩어리로 뭉쳐진 셀을 서로 분리하고 모폴로지 연산을 통하여 영상으로부터 획득한 개별 셀의 형태를 개선한다. 제안된 시스템은 모바일 환경에서 사용될 수 있도록 개발되었다. 따라서 셀 영상은 모바일 폰의 카메라로 획득하며 미세세포의 통계학적인 분석 데이터는 유비쿼터스 환경의 모바일 장치에 의해 전송 된다. 실험을 통하여 수동으로 계수한 셀의 숫자와 제안된 방법에 의해 자동 카운팅 된 셀의 수를 비교한 결과 제안된 방법이 매우 효과적이고 정확한 결과를 제시한다는 사실을 입증하였다.
본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 미세세포 영상으로부터 셀을 자동 검출하고 계수하는 자동화 방법을 제시하였다. 셀 카운팅은 생물학 또는 병리학적 영상분석에 있어서 매우 중요한 과정이다. 과거에는 셀 카운팅은 수동적인 방법으로 진행되어 매우 지루하고 많은 시간을 필요로 하는 작업이었다. 이에 더하여 수동 계수 방법은 정확한 카운팅 결과를 도출하는데 어려움이 있었다. 따라서, 정확하고 일관된 셀 검출과 카운팅 결과를 생물학적인 영상으로부터 획득하기 위해서는 자동화방법이 필요하다. 제안된 다단계 셀 계수방법은 배양된 세포영상으로부터 셀을 자동으로 분할하고 분할된 셀의 위상학적 분석을 통하여 셀을 라벨링 한다. 셀 카운팅의 정확도를 높이기 위하여 워터쉐드 알고리듬에 의하여 서로 덩어리로 뭉쳐진 셀을 서로 분리하고 모폴로지 연산을 통하여 영상으로부터 획득한 개별 셀의 형태를 개선한다. 제안된 시스템은 모바일 환경에서 사용될 수 있도록 개발되었다. 따라서 셀 영상은 모바일 폰의 카메라로 획득하며 미세세포의 통계학적인 분석 데이터는 유비쿼터스 환경의 모바일 장치에 의해 전송 된다. 실험을 통하여 수동으로 계수한 셀의 숫자와 제안된 방법에 의해 자동 카운팅 된 셀의 수를 비교한 결과 제안된 방법이 매우 효과적이고 정확한 결과를 제시한다는 사실을 입증하였다.
This paper presents an automatic method to detect and count the cells from microorganism images based on mobile environments. Cell counting is an important process in the field of biological and pathological image analysis. In the past, cell counting is done manually, which is known as tedious and t...
This paper presents an automatic method to detect and count the cells from microorganism images based on mobile environments. Cell counting is an important process in the field of biological and pathological image analysis. In the past, cell counting is done manually, which is known as tedious and time consuming process. Moreover, the manual cell counting can lead inconsistent and imprecise results. Therefore, it is necessary to make an automatic method to detect and count cells from biological images to obtain accurate and consistent results. The proposed multi-step cell counting method automatically segments the cells from the image of cultivated microorganism and labels the cells by utilizing topological analysis of the segmented cells. To improve the accuracy of the cell counting, we adopt watershed algorithm in separating agglomerated cells from each other and morphological operation in enhancing the individual cell object from the image. The system is developed by considering the availability in mobile environments. Therefore, the cell images can be obtained by a mobile phone and the processed statistical data of microorganism can be delivered by mobile devices in ubiquitous smart space. From the experiments, by comparing the results between manual and the proposed automatic cell counting we can prove the efficiency of the developed system.
This paper presents an automatic method to detect and count the cells from microorganism images based on mobile environments. Cell counting is an important process in the field of biological and pathological image analysis. In the past, cell counting is done manually, which is known as tedious and time consuming process. Moreover, the manual cell counting can lead inconsistent and imprecise results. Therefore, it is necessary to make an automatic method to detect and count cells from biological images to obtain accurate and consistent results. The proposed multi-step cell counting method automatically segments the cells from the image of cultivated microorganism and labels the cells by utilizing topological analysis of the segmented cells. To improve the accuracy of the cell counting, we adopt watershed algorithm in separating agglomerated cells from each other and morphological operation in enhancing the individual cell object from the image. The system is developed by considering the availability in mobile environments. Therefore, the cell images can be obtained by a mobile phone and the processed statistical data of microorganism can be delivered by mobile devices in ubiquitous smart space. From the experiments, by comparing the results between manual and the proposed automatic cell counting we can prove the efficiency of the developed system.
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문제 정의
Nowdays the wide spread of ubiquitous smart space environments can lead the cell counting process applicable to the mobile devices such as smart phones. The purpose of this research is to develop an efficient and reliable automated cell counting technique for the images of cell samples obtained by a camera attached on a smart phone. The statical analysis of the cells by the proposed method should support consistent and reliable results regardless of variation of surrounding environments.
This paper introduces an automatic cell counting method from microorganism images on mobile environments. The proposed multi-step cell counting method automatically segments the cells from the image of cultivated microorganism and labels the cells by utilizing topological analysis of the segmented cells.
가설 설정
Definition 2: Steepest descent path from a pixel ‘p’ to minimum ‘m’ is a series of connected pixels originating from ‘p’; such that every descendent pixel in SDpath is smaller than its predecessor.
Definition 3: The catchment basin CatchBi associated with a regional minimum mi is the set of pixels p of DI such that a water drop falling at p flows down along the relief, following a certain descending path called the downstream of p, and eventually reaches M.
Definition 4: The distance between two pixels p and q belonging to a certain domain CatchB in an image is the minimum length of any path from p to q without leaving the domain CatchB.
제안 방법
In order to improve the accuracy of the cell counting, watershed algorithm is adopted for separating the overlapped cells. From the experiments, the proposed technique provides more accurate and consistent cell counting result comparing with previous cell counting approaches.
The advantage of the proposed method is to produce accurate cell counting results based on a hybrid approach which is robust to light variation and cell overlapping involved cases. Moreover, it provides cell analysis on smart space environments.
In general, the Flood Fill algorithm consists of three parameters such as a start node, a target color, and a replacement color. The algorithm looks for all nodes in the array which are connected to the start node by a path of the target color, and changes them to the replacement color. There are many ways in which the flood-fill algorithm can be structured, but they make use of a queue or stack data structure, explicitly or implicitly.
The proposed automatic cell counting technique consists of three major steps: HSV color-based object segmentation, morphological process for image enhancement and labeling for cell counting. In the first step, the images of microorganism such as glucuronidase or K.
이론/모형
There are many ways in which the flood-fill algorithm can be structured, but they make use of a queue or stack data structure, explicitly or implicitly. In this paper, 4-way recursive Flood Fill algorithm is used for counting cells while filling out the detected cell regions a color. The Flood Fill algorithm is as follow.
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