Accumulative difference image protocol for particle tracking in fluorescence microscopy tested in mouse lymphonodes.
The basic research in cell biology and in medical sciences makes large use of imaging tools mainly based on confocal fluorescence and, more recently, on non-linear excitation microscopy. Substantially the aim is the recognition of selected targets in the image and their tracking in time. We have developed a particle tracking algorithm optimized for low signal/noise images with a minimum set of requirements on the target size and with no a priori knowledge of the type of motion. The image segmentation, based on a combination of size sensitive filters, does not rely on edge detection and is tailored for targets acquired at low resolution as in most of the in-vivo studies. The particle tracking is performed by building, from a stack of Accumulative Difference Images, a single 2D image in which the motion of the whole set of the particles is coded in time by a color level. This algorithm, tested here on solid-lipid nanoparticles diffusing within cells and on lymphocytes diffusing in lymphonodes, appears to be particularly useful for the cellular and the in-vivo microscopy image processing in which few a priori assumption on the type, the extent and the variability of particle motions, can be done.
Villa
Carlo E
CE
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Caccia
Michele
M
Sironi
Laura
L
D'Alfonso
Laura
L
Collini
Maddalena
M
Rivolta
Ilaria
I
Miserocchi
Giuseppe
G
Gorletta
Tatiana
T
Zanoni
Ivan
I
Granucci
Francesca
F
Chirico
Giuseppe
G
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D042541:Intracellular Space / Q000378:metabolism; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D051379:Mice; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors
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