A three-dimensional macrophages movement analyser
Benjamin Culeux, Tomoharu Nakashima, Toshinobu Hayashi, Manabu Nii, Yutaka Komai · 2014
The dynamics behaviour and underlying principles of macrophages movement within living bodies still being unknown, we are currently studying unique sets of pictures in order to better understand them and develop a simulator able to successfully reproduce them. In previous works, we presented our early efforts in building a simple 2D macrophages simulator, as well as a new set of 3D data and a new tool to visualize them. In this paper, our goal is to progress towards a full analysis of our 3D data by extending our visualizing tool into an analysing tool, able to fully break the data about macrophages movement. By applying object recognition and object tracking techniques, we developed a tool able to display and record all information relative to the moves of a given three-dimensional macrophages set, information we will be able to use in order to develop a new 3D macrophages simulator.