The invention discloses an
ant colony neighbor
cell tracking system based on a cooperation and competition mode and application thereof. The
system includes an initial
ant colony distribution and rough classification module, a multi-
ant-colony decision module and a fusion and deletion module. The initial
ant colony distribution and rough classification module uses an approximate median method to extract a foreground image of cells so as to obtain initial
ant colony distribution and then uses a K-mean-value clustering method to roughly divides the
ant colony into N groups of sub-ant colonies. The multi-ant-colony decision module constructs a
cell position
estimation module, which is under the common action of N independent sub-
pheromone fields and total
pheromone fields, on the cooperation and competition mode. The fusion and deletion module performs multi-
cell position
estimation based on
pheromone field construction through combination of similar sub-ant-colonies and removal of false targets caused by
clutter and uses a nearest neighbor method which is easy to realize to perform cell correlation and obtain cell motion trails and kinetic parameters. The ant colony neighbor
cell tracking system based on the cooperation and competition mode is capable of realizing neighbor multi-cell kinetic parameter
estimation under a low-contrast-ratio cell
image sequence, that is, under conditions that neighbor multi-cell kinetic characteristics are different, cells are deformed and
time variance happens in
cell number and the like, on the basis that no cell detection module or large quantity of cell training samples are needed, through cooperation and competition of an ant cluster
system, problems of neighbor multi-cell multi-parameter estimation and tracking are solved.