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IJML 2023 Vol.13(2): 64-69 ISSN: 2010-3700
DOI: 10.18178/ijml.2023.13.2.1130

A Cell Tracking Method for Dynamic Analysis of Immune Cells Based on Deep Learning

Aya Watanabe, Kenji Fujimoto, Hironori Shigeta, Shigeto Seno, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Ishii, and Hideo Matsuda*

Manuscript received August 17, 2022; revised October 7, 2022; accepted November 11, 2022.

Abstract—Since the dynamics of immune cells change about phenomena in a living body, it is very important to observe and analyze cell dynamics in vivo in real-time. For this purpose, it is necessary to extract the information for the analysis by accurately tracking individual cells. As a method for this, general object tracking algorithms based on CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) have been actively studied in the field of computer vision. However, in cell tracking, there are a large number of cells in fluorescent images that are similar in color and shape. It is not easy to recognize individual cells once they are lost due to overlap with other cells. Thus it is difficult to generate a large amount of training data with correct tracking trajectories. To cope with the problem of insufficient training data of cell images, our method extends the data by image processing and by assigning pseudo-labels. Furthermore, to obtain information more suitable for dynamic analysis, we propose to apply the re-identification function based on Euclidean distance. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with application to time-lapse images of immune cells against multiple inflammatory stimulations.

Index Terms—Cell tracking, bioimaging, deep learning, cell image analysis

A. Watanabe, K. Fujimoto, H. Shigeta, S. Seno, Y. Uchida, M. Ishii, and H. Matsuda are with Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.

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Cite: Aya Watanabe, Kenji Fujimoto, Hironori Shigeta, Shigeto Seno, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Ishii, and Hideo Matsuda*, "A Cell Tracking Method for Dynamic Analysis of Immune Cells Based on Deep Learning," International Journal of Machine Learning vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 64-69, 2023.

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General Information

  • E-ISSN: 2972-368X
  • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Mach. Learn.
  • Frequency: Quaterly
  • DOI: 10.18178/IJML
  • Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Lin Huang
  • Executive Editor:  Ms. Cherry L. Chen
  • Abstracing/Indexing: Inspec (IET), Google Scholar, Crossref, ProQuest, Electronic Journals LibraryCNKI.
  • E-mail: ijml@ejournal.net


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