Tracking Cell Motion : A Boundary-Based Approach

Tracking of a cell motion is studied in this paper based on a curved boundary representation technique. In cases where the internal source of the motion of a cell is not known, the alternative approach to tracking and estimating the motion is using the shape information. Some of the techniques in curved boundary are reviewed in this paper, and an approach that segments and describes boundaries to obtain the correspondent points on a pair of boundaries for tracking the motion is proposed. Each boundary is described as a set of cyclic convex/concave segments, and inflection points between two segments are used as break points for tracking the motion of a cell. Some of the intermediate results of representing curved boundaries and tracking the motion of a cell are also presented along with algorithms.