This paper proposes the identification of regions of interest in biospeckle patterns using unsupervised neural networks of the type Self-Organizing Maps. Segmented images are obtained from the acquisition and processi...
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This paper proposes the identification of regions of interest in biospeckle patterns using unsupervised neural networks of the type Self-Organizing Maps. Segmented images are obtained from the acquisition and processing of laser speckle sequences. The dynamic speckle is a phenomenon that occurs when a beam of coherent light illuminates a sample in which there is some type of activity, not visible, which results in a variable pattern over time. In this particular case the method is applied to the evaluation of bacterial chemotaxis. imagestacks provided by a set of experiments are processed to extract features of the intensity dynamics. A Self-Organizing Map is trained and its cells are colored according to a criterion of similarity. During the recall stage the features of patterns belonging to a new biospeckle sample impact on the map, generating a new image using the color of the map cells impacted by the sample patterns. It is considered that this method has shown better performance to identify regions of interest than those that use a single descriptor. To test the method a chemotaxis assay experiment was performed, where regions were differentiated according to the bacterial motility within the sample.
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