A Novel Gaussian Ant Colony Algorithm for Clustering Cell Tracking

Mingli Lu, Di Wu, Yuchen Jin, Jian Shi, Benlian Xu, Jinliang Cong, Yingying Ma, Jiadi Lu and Shi Cheng

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-15

Abstract: Cell behavior analysis is a fundamental process in cell biology to obtain the correlation between many diseases and abnormal cell behavior. Moreover, accurate number estimation plays an important role for the construction of cell lineage trees. In this paper, a novel Gaussian ant colony algorithm, for clustering or spatial overlap cell state and number estimator, simultaneously, is proposed. We have introduced a novel definition of the Gaussian ant system borrowed from the concept of the multi-Bernoulli random finite set (RFS) in the way that it encourages ants searching for cell regions effectively. The existence probability of ant colonies is considered for the number and state estimation of cells. Through experiments on two real cell sequences, it is confirmed that our proposed algorithm could automatically track clustering cells in various scenarios and has enabled superior performance compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/9205604

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