NIST Colloquium Series--April 20, 2007

The development of tissue substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve human tissues involves implanting scaffolds and seeding and culturing cells with hormones to induce growth of tissue. Computer vision can provide the capability to “engineer individual cells” by precisely and individually tracking a large number of cells in vivo in real time to study and direct the migration and proliferation of tissue cells. The varying density of the cell culture and the complexity of the cell behavior (shape deformation, division/mitosis, close contact and partial occlusion) pose many challenges to tracking techniques. Using our work in collaboration with biomedical engineers, I will present the challenge and excitement of the new application area of motion image analysis.

Anyone outside NIST wishing to attend must be sponsored by a NIST employee and receive a visitor badge.
For more information, call Kum J. Ham at 301-975-4203.