J 2017

MitoGen: A Framework for Generating 3D Synthetic Time-Lapse Sequences of Cell Populations in Fluorescence Microscopy

SVOBODA, David and Vladimír ULMAN

Basic information

Original name

MitoGen: A Framework for Generating 3D Synthetic Time-Lapse Sequences of Cell Populations in Fluorescence Microscopy

Authors

SVOBODA, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Vladimír ULMAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2017, 0278-0062

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 6.131

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/17:00094555

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

UT WoS

000392418000027

Keywords in English

Simulation; Molecular and cellular imaging; Microscopy; Cell; Image synthesis

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 14/6/2022 11:50, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The proper analysis of biological microscopy images is an important and complex task. Therefore, it requires verification of all steps involved in the process, including image segmentation and tracking algorithms. It is generally better to verify algorithms with computer-generated ground truth datasets, which, compared to manually annotated data, nowadays have reached high quality and can be produced in large quantities even for 3D time-lapse image sequences. Here, we propose a novel framework, called MitoGen, which is capable of generating ground truth datasets with fully 3D time-lapse sequences of synthetic fluorescence-stained cell populations. MitoGen shows biologically justified cell motility, shape and texture changes as well as cell divisions. Standard fluorescence microscopy phenomena such as photobleaching, blur with real point spread function (PSF), and several types of noise, are simulated to obtain realistic images. The MitoGen framework is scalable in both space and time. MitoGen generates visually plausible data that shows good agreement with real data in terms of image descriptors and mean square displacement (MSD) trajectory analysis. Additionally, it is also shown in this paper that four publicly available segmentation and tracking algorithms exhibit similar performance on both real and MitoGen-generated data. The implementation of MitoGen is freely available.

Links

GA14-22461S, research and development project
Name: Vývoj a studium metod pro kvantifikaci živých buněk (Acronym: Live Cell Quantification)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation