Detection of nuclei in 4D Nomarski DIC microscope images of early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using local image entropy and object tracking

Table 1 Performance of nuclear detection by low-entropy regions and those selected by forward and backward trackings

	set 1		set 2		set 3		set 4		set 5
Low-entropy regions	0.06	(1.0)	0.08	(1.0)	0.06	(1.0)	0.08	(1.0)	0.08	(1.0)
Forward Tracking	0.38	(1.0)	0.48	(1.0)	0.55	(1.0)	0.44	(1.0)	0.53	(1.0)
Forward and backward trackings	0.44	(1.0)	0.55	(1.0)	0.67	(1.0)	0.50	(1.0)	0.63	(1.0)

Data are specificity and (sensitivity) for five sets of 4D DIC microscope images of a C. elegans embryo from the one- to 24-cell stages (1 set = 56 focal planes × ~120 time points = ~6720 images).

ISSN: 1471-2105