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• March 20, 2019

Creator

• Cao, Tian
  • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science

Abstract

• Modern imaging technologies provide different ways to visualize various objects ranging from molecules in a cell to the tissue of a human body. Images from different imaging modalities reveal distinct information about these objects. Thus a common problem in image analysis is how to relate different information about the objects. For instance, relating protein locations from fluorescence microscopy and the protein structures from electron microscopy. These problems are challenging due to the difficulties in modeling the relationship between the information from different modalities. In this dissertation, a coupled dictionary learning based image analogy method is first introduced to synthesize images in one modality from images in another. As a result, using my method multi-modal registration (for example, registration between correlative microscopy images) is simplified to a mono-modal one. Furthermore, a semi-coupled dictionary learning based framework is proposed to estimate deformations from image appearances. Moreover, a coupled dictionary learning method is explored to capture the relationship between GTPase activations and cell protrusions and retractions. Finally, a probabilistic model is proposed for robust coupled dictionary learning to address learning a coupled dictionary with non-corresponding data. This method discriminates between corresponding and non-corresponding data thereby resulting in a "clean" coupled dictionary by removing non-corresponding data during the learning process.

Date of publication

• May 2016

Keyword

• dictionary learning
• image analysis
• Biomedical engineering
• Computer engineering
• registration
• multi-modal
• Computer science

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Advisor

• Hahn, Klaus
• Niethammer, Marc
• Styner, Martin
• Berg, Alexander
• Jojic, Vladimir

Degree

• Doctor of Philosophy

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School

Graduation year

• 2016

Language

• English

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