Identificação de núcleos de células usando Hough Circles

Abstract

Genotoxic agents detection existent in aquatic environments have been performed using fish as a test organism due to its sensitivity to environmental adversities. The fish cells in contact with genotoxic agents go through changes in their cells, the creation of a micronucleus is the result of these changes. The detection of genotoxic agents is performed by analyzing the fish cells, usually manually, which makes the process exhausting and prone to failure. In this article, the Hough Circles technique is used to identify the nucleus present in fish cell images. The Hough Circles technique could satisfactorily identify the nuclei in fish cell images.