thresholding phase contrast for tracking cell migration

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thresholding phase contrast for tracking cell migration

davince
Hello everyone
i'm currently doing cell migration study.
we are using fibroblast like cell and image is taken by phase contrast.

But for phase contrast, thresholding is especially difficult.

I use fiji distribution to try to do the processing since i'm thinking about using the stitching function for generating a montage prior to analysing.

I've found that using find edges and then use auto global threshold by triangle algorithm gives me a acceptable result.

My final requirement is to use tracking function like MTrack2 to track the migration path & position and many other measurement of a ROI of a cell through time lapse stacks.

Can anyone give me a hint if you have experience of tracking phase contrast cell images?

What is the best way to do inorder to get the final data i want?
that is to track movement of ROIs of cells throughuot time lapse stacks.
i hope i can threshold to get entire cell perimeter because apart from centroid x and y, i also need fit ellipse parameters.


Thank you very much in advance

Best,
       Paul