Tag Archives: B.S. Manjunath

Synapse Classification And Localization In Electron Micrographs

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We have a new publication, Synapse Classification And Localization In Electron Micrographs in Pattern Recognition Letters.  Authors are: Vignesh JagadeeshJames Anderson, Bryan W. JonesRobert MarcSteven Fisher and B.S. Manjunath.

Abstract:  Classification and detection of biological structures in Electron Micrographs (EM) is a relatively new large scale image analysis problem. The primary challenges are in modeling diverse visual characteristics and development of scalable techniques. In this paper we propose novel methods for synapse detection and localization, an important problem in connectomics. We first propose an attribute based descriptor for characterizing synaptic junctions. These descriptors are task specific, low dimensional and can be scaled across large image sizes. Subsequently, techniques for fast localization of these junctions are proposed. Experimental results on images acquired from a mammalian retinal tissue compare favorably with state of the art descriptors used for object detection.

Robust Segmentation based Tracking using an Adaptive Wrapper for Inducing Priors

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We have published another manuscript, Robust Segmentation based Tracking using an Adaptive Wrapper for Inducing Priors.  This manuscript describes the work on adaptive tracing and proposes an algorithm that adapts a generic tracing algorithm to an application of interest.  In our specific case, it is boundaries of cells in high frequency space in transmission electron microscopy images.  But the approach in this paper is applicable to biological, medical, remote sensing and surveillance data as well utilizing priors specific to the application.  The co-authors on the paper are: Vignesh JagadeeshJames Anderson, Bryan W. JonesRobert E. MarcSteven K Fisher and B.S Manjunath.