A Method for Automatic Extraction of Dopaminergic Neuron Terminals on Striatum Frontal Section Images

I. Gurevich, I. Koryabkina, E. Kozina, A. Myagkov, H. Niemann, M. Ugrumov, V. Yashina

2009

Abstract

This work is devoted to the description of an experimental data acquisition automated method which is required to fill the model of Parkinson’s disease preclinical stage. Digital images of the immunostained brain sections of experimental animals are used as a data source. Proposed method: 1) is based on following mathematical morphology operations: opening, grayscale reconstruction, closing, bot-hat transformation, morphological gradient, watershed transformation; 2) enables: to smooth heterogeneous complex background; to select small objects on images depended on given sizes and gray values; to eliminate out-of-focus objects; to separate close objects; to calculate features of selected objects; 3) is intended for automatic extraction of dopaminergic neurons terminals on striatum frontal section images. Experimental investigations confirmed possibility and suitability of section images automated processing and analysis by means of the method. The results of the method use are segmented object contours binary image and object feature list.

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Gurevich I., Koryabkina I., Kozina E., Myagkov A., Niemann H., Ugrumov M. and Yashina V. (2009). A Method for Automatic Extraction of Dopaminergic Neuron Terminals on Striatum Frontal Section Images . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Image Mining Theory and Applications - Volume 1: Workshop IMTA, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-80-7, pages 30-39. DOI: 10.5220/0001964600300039


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@conference{workshop imta09,
author={I. Gurevich and I. Koryabkina and E. Kozina and A. Myagkov and H. Niemann and M. Ugrumov and V. Yashina},
title={A Method for Automatic Extraction of Dopaminergic Neuron Terminals on Striatum Frontal Section Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Image Mining Theory and Applications - Volume 1: Workshop IMTA, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={30-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001964600300039},
isbn={978-989-8111-80-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Image Mining Theory and Applications - Volume 1: Workshop IMTA, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A Method for Automatic Extraction of Dopaminergic Neuron Terminals on Striatum Frontal Section Images
SN - 978-989-8111-80-7
AU - Gurevich I.
AU - Koryabkina I.
AU - Kozina E.
AU - Myagkov A.
AU - Niemann H.
AU - Ugrumov M.
AU - Yashina V.
PY - 2009
SP - 30
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0001964600300039