Phase Contrast Microscopy Cell PopulationSegmentation: A Survey
It surveys existing techniques for a domain-specific problem in biomedical imaging, but is incremental as it does not introduce new methods.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of methods for segmenting cell populations in phase contrast microscopy images, which is a critical step for applications like cell tracking and classification.
Phase contrast microscopy (PCM) has been widely used in biomedicine research, which allows users to observe objectives without staining or killing them. One important related research is to employ PCM to monitor live cells. How to segment cell populations in obtained PCM images gains more and more attention as its a critical step for downstream applications, such as cell tracking, cell classification and others. Many papers have been published to deal with this problem from different perspectives. In this paper we aim to present a comprehensive review on the development of PCM cell population segmentation.