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Method and device for segmenting a digital cell image

US8200013B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN · DE

Inventors

Otthein Herzog · Bremen, DE
Peter Friedl · Groß-Umstadt, DE
Björn Gottfried · Bremen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 17, 2011
Grant date	Jun 12, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 26, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30241
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for segmenting a digital image of biological cells, a method and a device for analyzing the dynamic behavior of biological cells and a method and a device for visualizing the dynamic behavior of biological cells. To provide a segmentation method that has minimal technical requirements, does not necessitate any special preparation or manipulation of the cells to be observed and which requires as few assumptions as possible to be made about the properties of the cells, it is proposed that the method comprises the following steps: determining a maximum gradient for each pixel of the image as the maximum difference between a pixel value of the pixel and the respective pixel values of all or selected neighboring pixels, determining a segmentation threshold value using the maximum gradients, classifying the images into an object class and an environment class using the segmentation threshold value and forming a segmentation zone of the digital image using a class merging method, in particular a region growing method.

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