Optical Flow Based Arabidopsis Thaliana Root Meristem Cell Division Detection

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

Quelhas, P (Author) Other; Mendonca, AM (Author) FEUP; Campilho, A (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Image Analysis and Recognition - Part II

Pages: 217-226

7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010

Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010

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Authenticus ID: P-007-V2Q

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13775-4_22

Abstract (EN): The study of cell division and growth is a fundamental aspect of plant biology research. In this research the Arabidopsis thaliana plant is the most widely studied model plant and research is based on in vivo observation of plant cell development, by time-lapse confocal microscopy. The research herein described is based on a large amount of image data, which must be analyzed to determine meaningful transformation of the cells in the plants. Most approaches for cell division detection are based on the morphological analysis of the cells' segmentation. However, cells are difficult to segment due to had image quality in the in vivo images. We describe an approach to automatically search for cell division in the Arabidopsis thaliana root meristem using image registration and optical flow. This approach is based on the difference of speeds of the cell division and growth processes (cell division being a much faster process). With this approach, we can achieve a detection accuracy of 96.4%.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10