Browsing by Subject "Electron Tomography"

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    A differential structure approach to membrane segmentation in electron tomography
    (2011-09) Martinez-Sanchez, Antonio; Inmaculada, García; Fernández, Jose-Jesús; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones
    Electron tomography allows three-dimensional visualization of cellular landscapes in molecular detail. Segmentation is a paramount stage for the interpretation of the reconstructed tomograms. Although several computational approaches have been proposed, none has prevailed as a generic method and thus segmentation through manual annotation is still a common choice. In this work we introduce a segmentation method targeted at membranes, which define the natural limits of compartments within biological specimens. Our method is based on local differential structure and on a Gaussian-like membrane model. First, it isolates information through scale-space and finds potential membrane-like points at a local scale. Then, the structural information is integrated at a global scale to yield the definite segmentation. We show and validate the performance of the algorithm on a number of tomograms under different experimental conditions.
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    A ridge-based framework for segmentation of 3D electron microscopy datasets
    (Elsevier, 2013-01) Martinez-Sanchez, Antonio; García, Inmaculada; Fernández, Jose-Jesús; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones
    Three-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy (EM) has become a major player in structural cell biology as it enables the analysis of subcellular architecture at an unprecedented level of detail. Interpretation of the resulting 3D volumes strongly depends on segmentation, which consists in decomposing the volume into their structural components. The computational approaches proposed so far have not turned out to be of general applicability. Thus, manual segmentation still remains a prevalent method. Here, a new computational framework for segmentation of 3D EM datasets is introduced. It relies on detection and characterization of ridges (i.e. local maxima). The detected ridges are modelled as asymmetric Gaussian functions whose parameters constitute ridge descriptors. This local information is then used to cluster the ridges, which leads to the ultimate segmentation. In this work we focus on membranes and locally planar structures in general. The performance of the framework is illustrated with its application to a number of complex 3D datasets and a quantitative analysis.