A novel multiple adjacent cell tracking approach based on pheromone prediction of ant colony

In this paper, we proposed a novel ant algorithm based on pheromone prediction for multiple adjacent cell tracking. In order to improve the efficacy and reduce the computing time of our proposed algorithm, evolution of pheromone fields is achieved based on pheromone prediction mechanism. Along with a detailed description of our algorithms, many simulation results are reported on. The results suggest that our algorithm can automatically and accurately track numerous cells in real cell image sequences, and obtain favorable performance compared with other methods.