MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

Mattia Gentil Workshop - IMIC 20 MICCAI Daily: Thursday During Monday’s workshop about Interactive Medical Image Computing (IMIC), Mattia Gentil gave a talk about his paper "Interactive Tracking of Cells in Microscopy Image Sequences". This work has the goal of providing a reliable tool for live cell tracking in microscopy videos with the supervision of a domain expert. The proposed approach relies on level set segmentation algorithms to keep track of the boundary of each cell in every frame of the video; this is necessary in order to extract useful metrics for medical analysis (e.g. the measure of the surface of a cell or its movement over the substrate). However automated algorithms make mistakes, therefore an expert is asked to oversee the tracking process and he is given the tools to stop the tracking and manually correct the mistaken cell boundaries. Furthermore the research group also proved that a K-Nearest Neighbors classifier can be trained in order to predict when the expert intervention is necessary. For future work, the team plans on involving inexpensive crowd workers with the purpose of fixing the algorithm mistakes without the expert intervention. Interactive Tracking of Cells in Microscopy Image Sequences