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Adaptive Local Thresholding for Co-Localization Detection in Multi-Channel Fluorescence Microscopic Images

Eisuke ITO, Yusuke TOMARU, Akira IIZUKA, Hirokazu HIRAI, Tsuyoshi KATO

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Automatic detection of immunoreactive areas in fluorescence microscopic images is becoming a key technique in the field of biology including neuroscience, although it is still challenging because of several reasons such as low signal-to-noise ratio and contrast variation within an image. In this study, we developed a new algorithm that exhaustively detects co-localized areas in multi-channel fluorescence images, where shapes of target objects may differ among channels. Different adaptive binarization thresholds for different local regions in different channels are introduced and the condition of each segment is assessed to recognize the target objects. The proposed method was applied to detect immunoreactive spots that labeled membrane receptors on dendritic spines of mouse cerebellar Purkinje cells. Our method achieved the best detection performance over five pre-existing methods.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E99-D No.11 pp.2851-2855
Publication Date
2016/11/01
Publicized
2016/07/27
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2016EDL8118
Type of Manuscript
LETTER
Category
Biological Engineering

Authors

Eisuke ITO
  Gunma University Graduate School of Science and Technology
Yusuke TOMARU
  Gunma University Graduate School of Science and Technology
Akira IIZUKA
  Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine
Hirokazu HIRAI
  Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine
Tsuyoshi KATO
  Gunma University Graduate School of Science and Technology

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