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A 3D neural network for moving microorganism extraction

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Accurate detection and extraction of moving microorganisms from microscopic video streams is the first important step in biological wastewater treatment system. We propose a novel moving object extraction algorithm based on a 3D self-organizing neural network to overcome the prominent challenges in microorganism video sequences, such as error bootstrapping, dynamic background, variable motion, physical deformation and noise obscured. Firstly, we design a multilayer network topology instead of the traditional single-layer self-organizing map, which significantly improve the discrimination ability of moving objects. Secondly, new designed mechanisms related to background model initialization and adaptively update have effectively weakened the bootstrapping and ghost influences. Thirdly, we create buffer layers in neural network efficiently to resolve the dynamic background and variable motion problems. Finally, a simple Kalman predictor with constant coefficients has been constructed to tackle with the cases of microorganism being obscured or lost. Experimental results on real microscopic video sequences and comparisons with the state-of-the-art methods have demonstrated the accuracy of our proposed microorganism extraction algorithm.

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The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61601004, 51307003, 51574004, 61472282), the Anhui Natural Science Key Research Project for Universities (Nos. KJ2012A040, 1508085MF129) and the Teaching Research Project of Anhui University of Technology under Grant No. 2013jy25.

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  1. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China

    Fang Zhou, Jun Liu & Bing Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Tin-Yu Wu

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

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Zhou, F., Wu, TY., Liu, J. et al. A 3D neural network for moving microorganism extraction. Neural Comput & Applic 30, 57–67 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-016-2808-4

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