Publications de Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

FlyLimbTracker: An Active Contour Based Approach for Leg Segment Tracking in Unmarked, Freely Behaving Drosophila

Michaël Unser, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

Understanding the biological underpinnings of movement and action requires the development of tools for quantitative measurements of animal behavior. Drosophila melanogaster provides an ideal model for developing such tools: the fly has unparalleled geneti ...

2017

A Family of Smooth and Interpolatory Basis Functions for Parametric Curve and Surface Representation

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

Interpolatory basis functions are helpful to specify parametric curves or surfaces that can be modified by simple user-interaction. Their main advantage is a characterization of the object by a set of control points that lie on the shape itself (i.e., curv ...

2016

User-Friendly Image-Based Segmentation and Analysis of Chromosomes

Michaël Unser, Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

We designed two efficient and user-friendly tools for the segmentation and analysis of images containing chromosomes or, more generally, rod-shaped elements that are spread on microscopic slides. The segmentation tool allows to automatically extract the pr ...

IEEE2016

Trigonometric Interpolation Kernel to Construct Deformable Shapes for User-Interactive Applications

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

We present a new trigonometric basis function that is capable of perfectly reproducing circles, spheres and ellipsoids while at the same time being interpolatory. Such basis functions have the advantage that they allow to construct shapes through a sequenc ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Efficient Shape Priors for Spline-Based Snakes

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

Parametric active contours are an attractive approach for image segmentation, thanks to their computational efficiency. They are driven by application-dependent energies that reflect the prior knowledge on the object to be segmented. We propose an energy i ...

2015

Snakes on a Plane [A perfect snap for bioimage analysis]

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

2015

Anillin Regulates Cell-Cell Junction Integrity by Organizing Junctional Accumulation of Rho-GTP and Actomyosin

Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

Anillin is a scaffolding protein that organizes and stabilizes actomyosin contractile rings and was previously thought to function primarily in cytokinesis [1-10]. Using Xenopus laevis embryos as a model system to examine Anillin's role in the intact verte ...

Cell Press2014

Snakes with Tangent-Based Control and Energies for Bioimage Analysis

Michaël Unser, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

We propose a novel active contour for the analysis of filament-like structures and boundaries—features that traditional snakes based on closed curves have difficulties to delineate. Our method relies on a parametric representation of an open curve involvin ...

IEEE2014

Exponential Hermite Splines For The Analysis Of Biomedical Images

Michaël Unser, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

We present a new exponential B-spline basis that enables the construction of active contours for the analysis of biomedical images. Our functions generalize the well-known polynomial Hermite B-splines and provide us with a direct control over the tangents ...

Ieee2014

Atlas-Free Brain Segmentation in 3D Proton-Density-Like MRI Images

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

We present a new method for the atlas-free brain segmentation of proton-density-like 3D MRI images. We show how steerable filters can be efficiently combined with parametric spline surfaces to produce a fast and robust 3D brain segmentation algorithm. The ...

IEEE2014