TY - JOUR
T1 - Automatic myonuclear detection in isolatedsingle muscle fibers using robust ellipse fitting and sparse representation
AU - Su, Hai
AU - Xing, Fuyong
AU - Lee, Jonah D.
AU - Peterson, Charlotte A.
AU - Yang, Lin
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Accurate and robust detection of myonuclei in isolated single muscle fibers is required to calculate myonuclear domain size. However, this task is challenging because: 1) shape and size variations of the nuclei, 2) overlapping nuclear clumps, and 3) multiple z-stack images with out-of-focus regions. In this paper, we have proposed a novel automatic detection algorithm to robustly quantify myonuclei in isolated single skeletal muscle fibers. The original z-stack images are first converted into one all-in-focus image using multi-focus image fusion. A sufficient number of ellipse fitting hypotheses are then generated from the myonuclei contour segments using heteroscedastic errors-in-variables (HEIV) regression. A set of representative training samples and a set of discriminative features are selected by a two-stage sparse model. The selected samples with representative features are utilized to train a classifier to select the best candidates. A modified inner geodesic distance based mean-shift clustering algorithm is used to produce the final nuclei detection results. The proposed method was extensively tested using 42 sets of z-stack images containing over 1,500 myonuclei. The method demonstrates excellent results that are better than current state-of-the-art approaches.
AB - Accurate and robust detection of myonuclei in isolated single muscle fibers is required to calculate myonuclear domain size. However, this task is challenging because: 1) shape and size variations of the nuclei, 2) overlapping nuclear clumps, and 3) multiple z-stack images with out-of-focus regions. In this paper, we have proposed a novel automatic detection algorithm to robustly quantify myonuclei in isolated single skeletal muscle fibers. The original z-stack images are first converted into one all-in-focus image using multi-focus image fusion. A sufficient number of ellipse fitting hypotheses are then generated from the myonuclei contour segments using heteroscedastic errors-in-variables (HEIV) regression. A set of representative training samples and a set of discriminative features are selected by a two-stage sparse model. The selected samples with representative features are utilized to train a classifier to select the best candidates. A modified inner geodesic distance based mean-shift clustering algorithm is used to produce the final nuclei detection results. The proposed method was extensively tested using 42 sets of z-stack images containing over 1,500 myonuclei. The method demonstrates excellent results that are better than current state-of-the-art approaches.
KW - Robust ellipse fitting
KW - muscle
KW - segmentation
KW - sparse optimization
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U2 - 10.1109/TCBB.2013.151
DO - 10.1109/TCBB.2013.151
M3 - Article
C2 - 26356342
AN - SCOPUS:84914104188
SN - 1545-5963
VL - 11
SP - 714
EP - 726
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
JF - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
IS - 4
M1 - 6674296
ER -