Region-based Fitting of Overlapping Ellipses and its application to cells segmentation

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Highlights:

• 2D shape representation with an automatically determined number of overlapping ellipses

• Applied on Segmentation of potentially overlapping cells

• Good balance between model complexity and shape coverage

• Experiments on more than 8000 2D shapes show the superiority of RFOVE.

• RFOVE achieves better shape coverage with simpler models than DEFA.

摘要

•2D shape representation with an automatically determined number of overlapping ellipses•Applied on Segmentation of potentially overlapping cells•Good balance between model complexity and shape coverage•Experiments on more than 8000 2D shapes show the superiority of RFOVE.•RFOVE achieves better shape coverage with simpler models than DEFA.

论文关键词:Cell segmentation,2D shape modeling,Overlapping objects,Ellipse fitting,AIC

论文评审过程:Received 8 January 2019, Revised 10 September 2019, Accepted 12 September 2019, Available online 31 October 2019, Version of Record 21 January 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2019.09.001