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@ARTICLE{Paul:1047299,
author = {Paul, Richard D. and Seiffarth, Johannes and Rügamer,
David and Scharr, Hanno and Nöh, Katharina and Scharr,
Hanno},
title = {{H}ow {T}o {M}ake {Y}our {C}ell {T}racker {S}ay '{I}
dunno!'},
publisher = {arXiv},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04214},
year = {2025},
note = {RDP is funded by the Helmholtz School for Data Science in
Life, Earth, and Energy (HDS-LEE). DR’s research is funded
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research
Foundation) – 548823575. This work was supported by the
President’s Initiative and Networking Funds of the
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres [EMSIG
ZT-I-PF-04-044].},
abstract = {Cell tracking is a key computational task in live-cell
microscopy, but fully automated analysis of high-throughput
imaging requires reliable and, thus, uncertainty-aware data
analysis tools, as the amount of data recorded within a
single experiment exceeds what humans are able to overlook.
We here propose and benchmark various methods to reason
about and quantify uncertainty in linear assignment-based
cell tracking algorithms. Our methods take inspiration from
statistics and machine learning, leveraging two perspectives
on the cell tracking problem explored throughout this work:
Considering it as a Bayesian inference problem and as a
classification problem. Our methods admit a framework-like
character in that they equip any frame-to-frame tracking
method with uncertainty quantification. We demonstrate this
by applying it to various existing tracking algorithms
including the recently presented Transformer-based trackers.
We demonstrate empirically that our methods yield useful and
well-calibrated tracking uncertainties.},
keywords = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) (Other) /
Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) (Other) / Applications
(stat.AP) (Other) / FOS: Computer and information sciences
(Other) / FOS: Biological sciences (Other)},
cin = {IBG-1 / IAS-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-1-20101118 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-8-20210421},
pnm = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
sustainable use (POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2503.09244},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1047299},
}