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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">info21308</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2010.297</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Treatment of Over-Saturated Protein Spots in Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Gel Images</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Serackis</surname><given-names>Artūras</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:arturas.serackis@el.vgtu.lt">arturas.serackis@el.vgtu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Navakauskas</surname><given-names>Dalius</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:dalius.navakauskas@el.vgtu.lt">dalius.navakauskas@el.vgtu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Electronics Systems, VGTU, Naugarduko 41-413, 422, LT-03227 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>409</fpage><lpage>424</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2009</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2010</year></date></history><abstract><p>The paper addresses the over-saturated protein spot detection and extraction problem in two-dimensional electrophoresis gel images. The effective technique for detection and reconstruction of over-saturated protein spots is proposed. The paper presents: an algorithm of the median filter mask adaptation for initial filtering of gel image; the models of over-saturation used for gel image analysis; several models of protein spots used for reconstruction; technique of the automatic over-saturated protein spot search and reconstruction. Experimental investigation confirms that proposed search technique lets to find up to 96% of over-saturated protein spots. Moreover the proposed flexible protein spot shape models for reconstruction are faster and more accurate in comparison to the flexible diffusion model.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>two-dimensional electrophoresis</kwd><kwd>protein spot search</kwd><kwd>image processing</kwd><kwd>image reconstruction</kwd><kwd>modelling</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>