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Video Bioinformatics

From Live Imaging to Knowledge

  • The first book to review the emerging interdisciplinary field of video bioinformatics
  • Includes links to example videos in each chapter
  • Presents quantifiable experimental results on computational methods for a range of biological problems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computational Biology (COBO, volume 22)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliii
  2. Video Bioinformatics: An Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Live Imaging and Video Bioinformatics

      • Bir Bhanu, Prue Talbot
      Pages 3-12
  3. Organismal Dynamics: Analyzing Brain Injury and Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Automated Identification of Injury Dynamics After Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia

      • Nirmalya Ghosh, Stephen Ashwal, Andre Obenaus
      Pages 77-97
    3. A Real-Time Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury from T2 Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images Using a Symmetry-Based Algorithm

      • Ehsan T. Esfahani, Devin W. McBride, Somayeh B. Shafiei, Andre Obenaus
      Pages 99-117
    4. Visualizing Cortical Tissue Optical Changes During Seizure Activity with Optical Coherence Tomography

      • M. M. Eberle, C. L. Rodriguez, J. I. Szu, Y. Wang, M. S. Hsu, D. K. Binder et al.
      Pages 119-132
  4. Dynamics of Stem Cells

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Bio-Inspired Segmentation and Detection Methods for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

      • Benjamin X. Guan, Bir Bhanu, Prue Talbot, Nikki Jo-Hao Weng
      Pages 135-150
    3. Evaluation of Dynamic Cell Processes and Behavior Using Video Bioinformatics Tools

      • Sabrina C. Lin, Henry Yip, Rattapol Phandthong, Barbara Davis, Prue Talbot
      Pages 167-186
  5. Dynamic Processes in Plant and Fungal Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Understanding Growth of Pollen Tube in Video

      • Asongu L. Tambo, Bir Bhanu, Nan Luo, Zhenbiao Yang
      Pages 201-213
    3. Automatic Image Analysis Pipeline for Studying Growth in Arabidopsis

      • Katya Mkrtchyan, Anirban Chakraborty, Min Liu, Amit Roy-Chowdhury
      Pages 215-236
    4. Quantitative Analyses Using Video Bioinformatics and Image Analysis Tools During Growth and Development in the Multicellular Fungus Neurospora crassa

      • Ilva E. Cabrera, Asongu L. Tambo, Alberto C. Cruz, Benjamin X. Guan, Bir Bhanu, Katherine A. Borkovich
      Pages 237-250
  6. Dynamics of Intracellular Molecules

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
    2. Quantification of the Dynamics of DNA Repair to Ionizing Radiation via Colocalization of 53BP1 and ɣH2AX

      • Torsten Groesser, Gerald V Fontenay, Ju Han, Hang Chang, Janice Pluth, Bahram Parvin
      Pages 253-263

About this book

The advances of live cell video imaging and high-throughput technologies for functional and chemical genomics provide unprecedented opportunities to understand how biological processes work in subcellular
and multicellular systems. The interdisciplinary research field of Video Bioinformatics is defined by Bir
Bhanu as the automated processing, analysis, understanding, data mining, visualization, query-based
retrieval/storage of biological spatiotemporal events/data and knowledge extracted from dynamic images
and microscopic videos. Video bioinformatics attempts to provide a deeper understanding of continuous
and dynamic life processes.
Genome sequences alone lack spatial and temporal information, and video imaging of specific molecules
and their spatiotemporal interactions, using a range of imaging methods, are essential to understand
how genomes create cells, how cells constitute organisms, and how errant cells cause disease. The book
examines interdisciplinary research issues and challenges with examples that deal with organismal dynamics,
intercellular and tissue dynamics, intracellular dynamics, protein movement, cell signaling and software
and databases for video bioinformatics.
Topics and Features
• Covers a set of biological problems, their significance, live-imaging experiments, theory and
computational methods, quantifiable experimental results and discussion of results.
• Provides automated methods for analyzing mild traumatic brain injury over time, identifying injury
dynamics after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia and visualizing cortical tissue changes during seizure
activity as examples of organismal dynamics
• Describes techniques for quantifying the dynamics of human embryonic stem cells with examples
of cell detection/segmentation, spreading and other dynamic behaviors which are important for
characterizing stem cell health
• Examines and quantifies dynamic processes in plant and fungal systems such as cell trafficking,
growth of pollen tubes in model systems such as Neurospora Crassa and Arabidopsis
• Discusses the dynamics of intracellular molecules for DNA repair and the regulation of cofilin
transport using video analysis
• Discusses software, system and database aspects of video bioinformatics by providing examples of
5D cell tracking by FARSIGHT open source toolkit, a survey on available databases and software,
biological processes for non-verbal communications and identification and retrieval of moth images
This unique text will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, Bioengineering, Cell Biology, Toxicology, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computer
Vision andPattern Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, and Cell Molecular and Developmental Biology.
The large number of example applications will also appeal to application scientists and engineers.
Dr. Bir Bhanu is Distinguished Professor of Electrical & C omputer Engineering, Interim Chair of the
Department of Bioengineering, Cooperative Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and Mechanical
Engineering and the Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems, at the University of California,
Riverside, California, USA.
Dr. Prue Talbot is Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Director of the Stem Cell Center and Core at
the University of California Riverside, California, USA.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Riverside, USA

    Bir Bhanu, Prue Talbot

About the editors

Dr. Bir Bhanu is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems at the University of California at Riverside, USA. His other Springer publications include the titles Distributed Video Sensor Networks, Human Recognition at a Distance in Video, and Human Ear Recognition by Computer.

Dr. Prue Talbot is a Professor of Cell Biology and the Director of the Stem Cell Center and Core Facility at the University of California at Riverside, USA. She is also the Director of the Inland Empire Stem Cell Consortium.

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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