title: Localisation of Drosophila embryos using active contours in channel spaces.
abstract: In this paper, we introduce an active contour based scheme to localise Drosophila embryos in RGB images. An active contour (initiated as a closed one) maybe converge to an open contour, e.g., in the case that a targeting embryo is touched by a neighbouring one. We propose an algorithmic strategy to detect and restore open active contours. The experiment results show the promise of the proposed scheme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, USA.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, USA.
authors.forename: Soujanya Siddavaram
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ananta
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology*