@conference {68367,
	title = {Tracking by Weakly-Supervised Learning and Graph Optimization for Whole-Embryo C. elegans lineages},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022 Sep 16},
	publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
	organization = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {<p>Tracking all nuclei of an embryo in noisy and dense fluorescence microscopy data is a challenging task. We build upon a recent method for nuclei tracking that combines weakly-supervised learning from a small set of nuclei center point annotations with an integer linear program (ILP) for optimal cell lineage extraction. Our work specifically addresses the following challenging properties of\&nbsp;<em>C. elegans</em>\&nbsp;embryo recordings: (1) Many cell divisions as compared to benchmark recordings of other organisms, and (2) the presence of polar bodies that are easily mistaken as cell nuclei. To cope with (1), we devise and incorporate a learnt cell division detector. To cope with (2), we employ a learnt polar body detector. We further propose automated ILP weights tuning via a structured SVM, alleviating the need for tedious manual set-up of a respective grid search.</p>
},
	isbn = {978-3-031-16439-2},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-16440-8},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-16440-8},
	editor = {Wang, Linwei and Dou, Qi and Fletcher, P. Thomas and Speidel, Stefanie and Li, Shuo}
}
