“Intensity Integrated Laplacian Based Thickness Measurement for Detecting Human Metaphase Chromosome Centromere Location” by Akila Subasinghe Arachchige, Jagath Samarabandu, Joan Knoll and Peter Rogan will be published in IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering.
Abstract—Accurate detection of the human metaphase chromosome centromere is an important step in many chromosome analysis and medical diagnosis algorithms. The centromere location can be utilized to derive information such as thechromosome type, polarity assignment etc. Methods available in literature yield unreliable results mainly due to high variabilityof morphology in metaphase chromosomes and boundary noise present in the image. In this article we have proposed a multi-staged algorithm which includes the use of discrete curve evolution (DCE), gradient vector flow (GVF) active contours, functional approximation of curve segments and support vector machine (SVM) classification. The standard Laplacian thickness measurement algorithm was enhanced to incorporate both contour information as well as intensity information to obtain a more accurate centromere location.