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We propose a technique to compute the fraction of boar spermatozoid heads which present an intracellular density distribution pattern hypothesized as normal by veterinary experts. This approach offers a potential for digital image processing estimation of sperm capacitation which can substitute expensive staining techniques. We extract a model distribution from a training set of heads assumed as normal by veterinary experts. We also consider two other training sets, one with heads similar to the normal pattern and another formed by heads that substantially deviate from that pattern. For each spermatozoid head, a deviation from the model distribution is computed. This produces a conditional probability distribution of that deviation for each set. Using a set of test images, we determine the fraction of normal heads in each image and compare it with the result of expert classification. This yields an absolute error below 0.25 in the 89% of the samples.
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Sánchez, L., Petkov, N., Alegre, E. (2005). Statistical Approach to Boar Semen Head Classification Based on Intracellular Intensity Distribution. In: Gagalowicz, A., Philips, W. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11556121_12
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