1. Visual Tracking of Cell Boundaries and Geometries
Andrew Gewitz, Eric Ho, Alvin Yates
CS 223B Final Project
March 17, 2008

2. Problem Statement Motivation
Verification and building of models for cellular motion
Broader Goal: Understand changes in signaling pathways over time
Given a sequence of images, track cell movements through the given space

3. Approach Median Filtering Feature Identification - Cell Centroids
Adaptive Thresholding
Morphological Dilation and Erosion
Motion Tracking / Correspondence
Smooth Trajectory Model
Minimization of Deviation from Set of Smoothest Trajectories

4. Centroid Correspondence and Trajectory

5. Future Work Parameter Optimization Alternatives Methods
Automatic Feature Detection
Changing Correspondence Metrics
Contour Fitting
Active Contour Methods
Initialization Methods