https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00084-2
Regular Article
Estimation of rheological parameters for unstained living cells
Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Kompetenzzentrum MechanoBiologie in Regenerativer Medizin, Institute of Complex Systems, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zámek 136, 373 33, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
Received:
25
May
2020
Accepted:
18
January
2021
Published online:
19
April
2021
In video-records, objects moving in intracellular regions are often hardly detectable and identifiable. To squeeze the information on the intracellular flows, we propose an automatic method of reconstruction of intracellular flow velocity fields based only on a recorded video of an unstained cell. The basis of the method is detection of speeded-up robust features (SURF) and assembling them into trajectories. Two components of motion—direct and Brownian—are separated by an original method based on minimum covariance estimation. The Brownian component gives a spatially resolved diffusion coefficient. The directed component yields a velocity field, and after fitting the vorticity equation, estimation of the spatially distributed effective viscosity. The method was applied to videos of a human osteoblast and a hepatocyte. The obtained parameters are in agreement with the literature data.
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