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Chapter 21. Proc. BIOMED 2005, pages 209-212 295<br />

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Figure 4. The plot shows the confidence map with grid<br />

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cut-out radius for cell detection <strong>in</strong> the confidence map was<br />

18 pixels.<br />

In figure 1 an automatically segmented picture is<br />

shown. We see good performances of the count<strong>in</strong>g algorithm.<br />

So far we only compared cell-numbers of sections,<br />

counted by the algorithm and by an expert. We get calculation<br />

errors of about 5%. In further experiments, we also<br />

want to compare cell positions, detected by the algorithm<br />

and by an expert.<br />

6 Conclusion<br />

We have presented a framework for bra<strong>in</strong> section image<br />

segmentation and analysis. The feature detector, here cell<br />

classifier, was first tra<strong>in</strong>ed on a given sample set us<strong>in</strong>g a<br />

neural network. This detector was then applied by scann<strong>in</strong>g<br />

over the image to get a confidence map. Maxima analysis<br />

yields the cell locations. Experiments showed good performance<br />

of the classifier, however larger tests will have to be<br />

performed.<br />

In future work, various problems will have to be dealt<br />

with. First of all the scann<strong>in</strong>g performance should be <strong>in</strong>creased<br />

<strong>in</strong> order to be able to use smaller grid values, which<br />

could significantly <strong>in</strong>crease the classification rate. This<br />

could be done for example by us<strong>in</strong>g some k<strong>in</strong>d of hierarchical<br />

neural network like a cellular neural network, see<br />

[9]. In typical bra<strong>in</strong> section images, some cells not directly<br />

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ly<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the focus plane occur <strong>in</strong> a blurred fashion. In order<br />

to count those without count<strong>in</strong>g them twice <strong>in</strong> two section<br />

images with different focus planes, a three-dimensional cell<br />

classifier could be tra<strong>in</strong>ed for fixed focus plane distances.<br />

A different approach for account<strong>in</strong>g for non-focused cells<br />

would be to simply allow ’overcount<strong>in</strong>g’, and then to reduce<br />

doubles <strong>in</strong> the segmented images accord<strong>in</strong>g to location.<br />

This seems suitable given the fact that cells do not<br />

vary greatly <strong>in</strong> size. F<strong>in</strong>ally, sections typically span more<br />

than one microscope image. In order to count cells of the<br />

whole section some way of not count<strong>in</strong>g cells twice <strong>in</strong> both<br />

image parts has to be devised. This could be done for example<br />

by us<strong>in</strong>g techniques from image fusion. Furthermore,<br />

often not the whole image but only parts of the section are<br />

to be counted; so far this choice of the ’region of <strong>in</strong>terest’<br />

is done manually. We hope to automate this <strong>in</strong> the future<br />

by f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g separat<strong>in</strong>g features of these regions.<br />

7 Acknowledgements<br />

F.J.T. and E.W.L. gratefully acknowledges f<strong>in</strong>ancial support<br />

by the DFG 1 and the BMBF 2 .<br />

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1 graduate college ‘nonl<strong>in</strong>ear dynamics’<br />

2 project ‘ModKog’

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