@inbook{975d095d463b4e5eb5d33ec23cde71dd,
title = "Analysis of the interactions of migrating macrophages",
abstract = "Understanding the migrating patterns of cells in the immune system is of great importance; especially the changes of direction and its cause. For macrophages and other immune cells, excessive migration could be related to autoimmune diseases and cancer. In this work, an algorithm to analyse the change in direction of cells before and after they interact with another cell is proposed. The main objective is to provide insights into the notion that interactions between cell structures appear to anticipate migration. Such interactions are determined when the cells overlap and form clumps of two or more cells. The algorithm integrates a segmentation technique capable of detecting overlapping cells and a tracking framework into a tool for the analysis of the trajectories of cells before and after they overlap. The preliminary results show promise into the analysis and the hypothesis proposed, and it lays the ground work for further developments.",
keywords = "Cell tracking, Macrophages, Segmentation, Track analysis",
author = "Sol{\'i}s-Lemus, {Jos{\'e} Alonso} and Brian Stramer and Greg Slabaugh and Reyes-Aldasoro, {Constantino Carlos}",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-95921-4_25",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319959207",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "262--273",
editor = "Mark Nixon and Sasan Mahmoodi and Reyer Zwiggelaar",
booktitle = "Medical Image Understanding and Analysis - 22nd Conference, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "22nd Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2018 ; Conference date: 09-07-2018 Through 11-07-2018",
}
