{"id":3643,"date":"2024-06-25T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:12:11","slug":"automatic-karyotyping-using-image-semantic-segmentation-to-separate-overlapping-chromosomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/automatic-karyotyping-using-image-semantic-segmentation-to-separate-overlapping-chromosomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Karyotyping using Image Semantic Segmentation to Separate Overlapping Chromosomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Boineelo Sekori, Sol Plaatje University<br \/><strong>Supervisors:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr Albert Whata, Sol Plaatje University<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Boineelo Sekori - Automatic Karyotyping using Image Semantic segmentation to separate overlapping...\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCuwSjrs44I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>This study aims to automate karyotyping to successfully separate the overlapping human chromosomes.&nbsp; The objectives are as follows:<br \/>1. Automate semantic segmentation task for separating overlapping chromosomes.<br \/>2. Perform human karyotype chromosome segmentation using deep learning algorithms.<br \/>3. Assessing deep learning models in the semantic segmentation of separating overlapping chromosomes.<br \/>4. Evaluate the performance of the adapted and modified deep learning architecture.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1354\" height=\"954\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori.png 1354w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori-600x423.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori-1024x721.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Boineelo-Sekori-768x541.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1354px) 100vw, 1354px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0Boineelo Sekori, Sol Plaatje UniversitySupervisors:\u00a0 Dr Albert Whata, Sol Plaatje University This study aims to automate karyotyping to successfully separate the overlapping human chromosomes.&nbsp; The objectives are as follows:1. Automate semantic segmentation task for separating overlapping chromosomes.2. Perform human karyotype chromosome segmentation using deep learning algorithms.3. Assessing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}