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ArticleNeuroinformatics2017

Touching Soma Segmentation Based on the Rayburst Sampling Algorithm.

Tianyu Hu, Qiufeng Xu, Wei Lv, Qian Liu

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Article in Neuroinformatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Tianyu HuBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Qiufeng XuBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Wei LvBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Qian LiuBritton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China. qianliu@mail.hust.edu.cn.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuronal soma segmentation is essential for morphology quantification analysis. Rapid advances in light microscope imaging techniques have generated such massive amounts of data that time-consuming manual methods cannot meet requirements for high throughput. However, touching soma segmentation is still a challenge for automatic segmentation methods. In this paper, we propose a soma segmentation method that combines the Rayburst sampling algorithm and ellipsoid fitting. The improved Rayburst sampling algorithm is used to detect the soma surface; the ellipsoid fitting method then refines jagged sampled soma surface to generate smooth ellipsoidal shapes for efficient analysis. In experiments, we validated the proposed method by applying it to datasets from the fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography (fMOST) system. The results indicate that the proposed method is comparable to the manual segmented gold standard with accurate soma segmentation at a relatively high speed. The proposed method can be extended to large-scale image stacks in the future.

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AlgorithmsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonNeuronsTomography, OpticalDistance transformImage analysisRayburst sampling algorithmSoma segmentation

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PMID28940176
PMCPMC5671566
OpenAlexW2758838326

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