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Protein Tracking by CNN-Based Candidate Pruning and Two-Step Linking with Bayesian Network

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Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Dmitrieva, M 
Zenner, HL 
Johnston, DS 
Rittscher, J 

Abstract

Protein trafficking plays a vital role in understanding many biological processes and disease. Automated tracking of protein vesicles is challenging due to their erratic behaviour, changing appearance, and visual clutter. In this paper we present a novel tracking approach which utilizes a two-step linking process that exploits a probabilistic graphical model to predict tracklet linkage. The vesicles are initially detected with help of a candidate selection process, where the candidates are identified by a multi-scale spot enhancing filter. Subsequently, these candidates are pruned and selected by a light weight convolutional neural network. At the linking stage, the tracklets are formed based on the distance and the detection assignment which is implemented via combinatorial optimization algorithm. Each tracklet is described by a number of parameters used to evaluate the probability of tracklets connection by the inference over the Bayesian network. The tracking results are presented for confocal fluorescence microscopy data of protein trafficking in epithelial cells. The proposed method achieves a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.39 for the vesicle localisation and of 0.7 representing the degree of track matching with ground truth. The presented method is also evaluated against the state-of-the-art “Trackmate“ framework.

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Keywords

tracking, probabilistic graphical models, bayesian network, biomedical imaging, convolutional neural network, tracklets, confocal microscopy, particle detection

Journal Title

IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP

Conference Name

2019 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)

Journal ISSN

2161-0363
2161-0371

Volume Title

2019-October

Publisher

IEEE

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Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (203144/Z/16/Z)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/P026486/1)
Wellcome Trust (095927/B/11/Z)
Wellcome Trust (207496/Z/17/Z)