A Novel Gaussian Ant Colony Algorithm for Clustering Cell Tracking

Table 1

Basic notation.

Symbol	Description
	Cells state set in frame
	Multicell state set
	Survive probability
	The transition probability
	The number of cells in frame
	The state of ant
	The existence probability
	Probability density
	Mean
	Covariance
	The neighbors of pixel
	The heuristic function of pixel
	Pheromone level on pixel
	Pheromone gradient information of pixel
	Intensity average value
	The intensity value on pixel
	The pixel set located by ants.
	State transition matrix
	The process noise covariance
	The sampling interval.