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    • Biomedical imaging
    • Computational biology
    • Cellular dynamics

    Background:

    • Automated cell segmentation and tracking are crucial for quantifying cellular characteristics.
    • Accurate cell tracking is vital for disease diagnosis, drug development, and biomedical research.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a fully automated method for cell tracking, lineage construction, and quantification.
    • To develop a system for precise analysis of static and dynamic cell properties.

    Main Methods:

    • Cell detection using motion diffusion-based Partial Differential Equation (PDE) and active contours.
    • Variational joint local-global optical flow for motion vector field determination.
    • Graph partitioning for cell tracking and event detection, minimizing a global cost function.

    Main Results:

    • The automated tracking method achieved 99% tracking accuracy on reference segmentation maps.
    • The fully automated segmentation and tracking system demonstrated an average tracking accuracy of 89%.
    • Morphological, motility, and diffusivity measures were computed and validated.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers a robust solution for automated cell tracking and lineage construction.
    • This system has significant potential for advancing biomedical applications requiring precise cell analysis.
    • The high accuracy validates the effectiveness of the joint spatio-temporal and graph-based approach.