@inproceedings{0fa50966c1534187b4851309cb2419c0,
title = "DETCIC: Detection of elongated touching cells with inhomogeneous illumination using a stack of conditional random fields",
abstract = "Automated detection of touching cells in images with inhomogeneous illumination is a challenging problem. A detection framework using a stack of two conditional random fields is proposed to detect touching elongated cells in scanning electron microscopy images with inhomogeneous illumination. The first conditional random field employs shading information to segment the cells where the effect of inhomogeneous illumination is reduced. The second conditional random field estimates the cell walls using their estimated cell wall probability. The method is evaluated using a dataset of Clostridium difficile cells. Finally, the method is compared with two region-based cell detection methods, CellDetect and DeTEC, improving the F-score by at least 20%.",
keywords = "Cell detection, Clostridium difficile infection, Conditional random fields",
author = "A. Memariani and C. Nikou and Endres, {B. T.} and E. Bass{\`e}res and Garey, {K. W.} and Kakadiaris, {I. A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIAID 1UO1 AI-24290-01) and by the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowment Fund. All statements of facts, opinion or conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be construed as representing official views or policies of the sponsors. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2018 ; Conference date: 27-01-2018 Through 29-01-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.5220/0006623305740580",
language = "English (US)",
series = "VISIGRAPP 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications",
publisher = "SciTePress",
pages = "574--580",
editor = "Alain Tremeau and Francisco Imai and Jose Braz",
booktitle = "VISAPP",
}