Phenotype Recognition by Curvelet Transform and Random Subspace Ensemble

Abstract

Automated, image based high-content screening has become a fundamental tool for scientists to make discovery in biological science. Modern robotic fluorescence microscopes are able to capture thousands of images from massively parallel experiments such as RNA interference (RNAi). As such, ecient methods are required for automatic cellular phenotype identification capable of dealing with large image data sets. In this paper we applied the Curvelet transform for image feature description and Random Subspace ensemble (RSE) for classification. The Curvelet transform as a new multiscale directional transform allows an almost optimal nonadaptive sparse representation of objects rich with edges. The RSE contains a set of base classifiers trained using randomly drawn subsets of curvelet features. The component classifiers are then aggregated by the Majority Voting Rule. Experimental results on the phenotype recognition from three benchmark fluorescene