Blazakis, Konstantinos N, Madzvamuse, Anotida, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino-Carlos, Styles, Vanessa and Venkataraman, Chandrasekhar (2015) Whole cell tracking through the optimal control of geometric evolution laws. Journal of Computational Physics, 297. pp. 495-514. ISSN 0021-9991

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Abstract

Cell tracking algorithms which automate and systematise the analysis of time lapse image data sets of cells are an indispensable tool in the modelling and understanding of cellular phenomena. In this study we present a theoretical framework and an algorithm for whole cell tracking. Within this work we consider that "tracking" is equivalent to a dynamic reconstruction of the whole cell data (morphologies) from static image datasets. The novelty of our work is that the tracking algorithm is driven by a model for the motion of the cell. This model may be regarded as a simplification of a recently developed physically meaningful model for cell motility. The resulting problem is the optimal control of a geometric evolution law and we discuss the formulation and numerical approximation of the optimal control problem. The overall goal of this work is to design a framework for cell tracking within which the recovered data reflects the physics of the forward model. A number of numerical simulations are presented that illustrate the applicability of our approach.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Depositing User:	Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2015 15:55
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2017 03:54
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/50657

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