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Blind Source-Separation for Heart Wall and Erythrocyte Motion Estimation in the Beating Embryonic Heart. Sandeep Bhat Systems Bioimaging Lab, UCSB Presentation for ENGR 103, Nov 20, 2008 sandeepkbhat@ece.ucsb.edu. Agenda. Motivation Problem Setup Algorithm stages Results Conclusion.
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Blind Source-Separation for Heart Wall and Erythrocyte Motion Estimation in the Beating Embryonic Heart Sandeep Bhat Systems Bioimaging Lab, UCSB Presentation for ENGR 103, Nov 20, 2008 sandeepkbhat@ece.ucsb.edu
Agenda • Motivation • Problem Setup • Algorithm stages • Results • Conclusion
Motivation • Study of model organisms • Embryonic development, toxicology, specific gene function. • Zebrafish embryo is transparent • Live imaging of embryos. • Fluorescence microscopy (FM) • Bright field microscopy (BFM) • The algorithm aids BFM imaging of developing zebrafish heart.
Problem Setup • Input: BFM image sequence • Spanning several cardiac cycles. • Desired output: Two image sequences • Spanning one period (cardiac cycle) • One showing only the heart morphology • The other with only the transient structures (Red Blood Cells)
Algorithm Stages • Three stages: • Pre-processing • Separation algorithm • Post-processing
Separation Algorithm • Temporal alignment • Heart-wall: • “Periodic” • Mean/Median filtering • Red Blood Cells: • Not periodic • Subtraction/Variance
Post-processing • Flow analysis using FlowJ
Results • Testing with synthetically generated data. • Testing with synthetically generated data. • frequency components. • (a) Mean+Subtraction (b) Mean+Variance • (c) Median+Subtraction (d) Median+Variance
Results (contd.) • BFM images of zebrafish heart