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Region-based progressive localization of cell nuclei in microscopic images with data adaptive modeling
Imaging, image analysis and data visualization
Segmenting cell nuclei in microscopic images has become one of the most important routines in modern biological applications. With the vast amount of data, automatic localization, i.e. detection and segmentation, of cell nuclei is highly desirable compared to time-consuming manual processes. However, automated segmentation is challenging due to large intensity inhomogeneities in the cell nuclei and the background.
We present a new method for automated progressive localization of cell nuclei using data-adaptive models that can better handle the inhomogeneity problem. We perform localization in a three-stage approach: first identify all interest regions with contrast-enhanced salient region detection, then process the clusters to identify true cell nuclei with probability estimation via feature-distance profiles of reference regions, and finally refine the contours of detected regions with regional contrast-based graphical model. The proposed region-based progressive localization (RPL) method is evaluated on three different datasets, with the first two containing grayscale images, and the third one comprising of color images with cytoplasm in addition to cell nuclei. We demonstrate performance improvement over the state-of-the-art. For example, compared to the second best approach, on the first dataset, our method achieves 2.8 and 3.7 reduction in Hausdorff distance and false negatives; on the second dataset that has larger intensity inhomogeneity, our method achieves 5% increase in Dice coefficient and Rand index; on the third dataset, our method achieves 4% increase in object-level accuracy.
To tackle the intensity inhomogeneities in cell nuclei and background, a region-based progressive localization method is proposed for cell nuclei localization in fluorescence microscopy images. The RPL method is demonstrated highly effective on three different public datasets, with on average 3.5% and 7% improvement of region- and contour-based segmentation performance over the state-of-the-art.
Microscopic image analysis is becoming an enabling technology for modern systems-biology research, and cell nucleus segmentation is often the first step in the pipeline. Despite recent advances, the segmentation performance remains unsatisfactory in many cases. For example, on the popular public databases
The challenges of automated cell nucleus segmentation mainly arise from two imaging artifacts, as shown in Figure
Figure 1
An example image (left) and corresponding segmentation ground truth (right) from data set
An example image (left) and corresponding segmentation ground truth (right) from data set
Related work
Numerous works have been conducted on segmenting various structures in cell images
It has been shown that intensity inhomogeneities can be tackled by integrating convex Bayesian functional with the Chan-Vese model
Different from the unsupervised approaches, classification-based methods have also been proposed to incorporate prior information from labeled images. These classifiers include Bayesian
While most such supervised approaches describe the pixel- or region-level features, there are methods that tackle intensity inhomogeneity by explicitly modeling the inter-cell variations as more structural features. One way is to perform color standardization within pixelwise classification
Our contribution
The contribution of our work is to localize the cell nuclei in images with high intensity inhomogeneity with various data-adaptive modeling techniques in a progressive manner. Specifically, we design a three-stage cell nucleus localization method that: (1) salient regions representing cell nuclei and cell clusters are extracted with image-adaptive contrast enhancement; (2) the clusters are further processed to identify true cell nuclei based on feature-distance profiles of reference regions with cluster-adaptive probability estimates; and (3) the contours of detected cell nuclei are refined in a graphical model with region-adaptive contrast information. Figure
Figure 2
The high-level flow chart of our proposed region-based progressive localization method
The high-level flow chart of our proposed region-based progressive localization method. In this example, the cell nuclei and clusters are first extracted during initial segmentation with contrast-enhanced salient region detector, then missed or falsely detected cell nuclei are further processed in decluster processing with classification-based candidate identification and probability estimation via distance profile for candidate validation, and better contour delineation is finally achieved with regional contrast-based graphical model. For easier viewing, a quadrant of the original image is shown here, and similarly for Figure
We also design distinctive data-adaptive priors that can be categorized by the level of generalization: (1) global-level features modeled as support vectors from training images; (2) image-level features representing the distribution of varying appearances of the nearby cell nuclei; and (3) region-level features computed at all three stages of the method for interest region detection, candidate validation and contour refinement. Being adaptive to the specific image or interest region, the image- and region-level features are especially effective in accommodating the intensity inhomogeneities.
Compared to localization methods based on global criteria (e.g. thresholding or feature-based classification), our approach is more capable of accommodating (1) intensity variations between cell nuclei (intra- and inter-images) and (2) feature overlapping between cell nuclei and background areas. Compared to the energy-based techniques that target pixel-wise segmentation (e.g. level sets and graph cuts), our method has a stronger focus on cell nuclei detection with explicit modeling of cell-specific characteristics, to effectively filter cell-like background regions and identify obscure cell nuclei.
We suggest that the proposed region-based progressive localization (RPL) method can be potentially extended to other localization problems, if the objects of interest can be modeled as regions with distinct features from the surrounding background. A similar three-stage approach would be used, and the application-specific modifications would mainly focus on the feature design. One example could be tumor localization in functional images.
Initial segmentation
While cell nuclei might appear similar to the background, there is always some degree of contrast between them. Such an observation motivates us to localize the cell nuclei by extracting salient regions. During initial segmentation, we do not have strict requirements about the extracted regions. In particular, if multiple cell nuclei are tightly connected, or cell nuclei are surrounded by high-intensity background and difficult to differentiate, identifying them as a single region is acceptable. We design a
Specifically, an iterative approach is developed based on the maximally stable extremal region (MSER) method
Figure 3
Illustration of initial segmentation
Illustration of initial segmentation.(a) The original image. (b) The segmentation ground truth. (c) The interest regions detected without iterative contrast enhancement, and darker blue denotes upper-level regions. (d) The image after iterative enhancement. (e) The final interest regions detected. After the initial segmentation, decluster processing is performed, with outputs shown in (f) and dark gray indicating the detected cell nuclei.
where {
It is also observed that during each iteration, the parameter
Algorithm 1: Initial segmentation
Decluster processing
As seen in Figure
Formally, let
In the first step, we try to identify a set of non-overlapping candidate foreground regions {
While most of the candidate regions are true cell nuclei, some are actually bright background areas with round shapes (e.g. the first example in Figure
Figure 4
Illustration of decluster processing
Illustration of decluster processing.(a) The example image (after iterative enhancement). (b) Newly identified candidate regions are shown in yellow, with purple indicating the ones detected during initial segmentation, and both gray and purple denoting the reference regions; here to illustrate the probability inference, the light blue circle highlights one reference
In the second step, we validate if the identified candidate region
Probability inference Although cell nuclei in an image could have varying characteristics, we expect that
We use these references by first creating a distance profile per reference, and computing the probability of
To measure if
With this model,
Next, by combining the estimates
The averaging operation helps to ensure that a single reference
Then, based on
Algorithm 2: Candidate validation
Appearance feature We observe that a region tends to comprise patches of similar textures and repetitive patterns. Therefore, we choose to represent
Note that if
Appearance distance To compute the distances
Contour refinement
At this stage, a detected region could contain a single or multiple cell nuclei, which could be under-segmented or include extra background. We thus expect to achieve better contour delineation of cell nuclei. Our idea is that, while the foreground and background are often inhomogeneous, there is always relatively good contrast between them in a local area. Therefore, by performing contour refinement for each detected cell region
Specifically, a conditional random field (CRF)
Figure 5
Illustration of contour refinement
Illustration of contour refinement.(a) Segmentation output after the decluster processing shown with yellow contours. (b)
The contrast-based intensity term
Note that since
where 〈 · 〉 denotes the average Euclidean distances of all such pairwise distances in
The spatial term
Materials and evaluation methods
Three different datasets that are publicly available with segmentation ground truth are used in this study. Their main properties are summarized in Table
Figure 6
Example localization results
Example localization results. The top row from dataset 1, the middle row from dataset 2 and the bottom row from dataset 3. (a) Image with ground truth contours in orange. (b) Results using our proposed RPL method. (c) Results using OT. (d) Results using LS.
Most parameters used in this study are set to the same values for all three datasets: (1) in
For dataset 1, four representative images are selected to train two SVM classifiers, for the cell-cluster differentiation and candidate identification. While testing is performed on all images to make the results directly comparable with the state-of-the-art
We evaluate the localization of cell nuclei by two measures. First, performance of object-level detection is evaluated by recall (R), precision (P), and accuracy (A):
where TP, FN, and FP are the numbers of true positive, false negative and false positive detections of cell nuclei. Given a detected region
then the detection is considered TP
Second, the segmentation performance is evaluated by both region- and contour-based measures, including Dice, normalized sum of distances (NSD) and Hausdorff distance (HD):
We have compared with popular cell imaging segmentation techniques, including Otsu thresholding,
Results and discussion
Cell detection
We report the object-level detection results in Table
Figure 7
Cell detection results
Cell detection results. Histograms with
The performance improvement introduced by the iterative process of interleaving interest region extraction and image enhancement are shown in Figure
Figure 8
Cell detection results
Cell detection results. Improvement on detection from (a) iterative image enhancement and interest-region extraction, and (b) candidate validation.
To evaluate the effect of the default threshold setting
Figure 9
ROC curves of candidate validation
ROC curves of candidate validation. The purple dots indicate the position with the decision threshold
Nucleus segmentation
To further evaluate the design of the graphical model for contour refinement, the foreground probabilities for all pixels of interest are computed with the intensity term, as summarized in Figure
Figure 10
Nucleus segmentation results
Nucleus segmentation results. Histograms with
Figure 11
Nucleus segmentation results
Nucleus segmentation results. Improvement on segmentation from (a) contrast-based detection term and (b) spatial term.
Performance comparison
The localization results using the standard approaches are listed in Table
A comparison with the state-of-the-art results reported for the same datasets is summarized in Table
Our method is currently implemented in Matlab, running on a standard PC with a 2.66-GHz dual core CPU and 3.6 GB RAM. The computational time is related to the number of cells and the size of cells in an image. On a 1344 ×1024 pixel image with about 40 cell nuclei, an average 35 s is needed for the entire localization process. This is faster than applying the level set method
A fully automatic localization method for cell nuclei in microscopic images is presented in this paper. Intensity inhomogeneities in cell nuclei and the background often cause unsatisfactory localization performance. Not many works have been reported to address this problem in a robust manner. We propose a method that exploits various scales of data-adaptive information to tackle the intensity inhomogeneity. First, the regions of interest, i.e. cell nuclei or clusters, are extracted as salient regions with iterative contrast enhancement. Then with feature-based classification and reference-based probability inference, the clusters are further processed to detect more cell nuclei and filter out spurious regions. Lastly, based on regional contrast information encoded in a graphical model, the pixel-level segmentation is enhanced to create the final contours. This region-based progressive localization (RPL) method has been successfully applied to three publicly available datasets, showing good object-level detection and region- and contour-based segmentation results. Compared to popular approaches in this problem domain such as level sets, our method achieved consistently better performance, with on average 5.2% increase in Dice coefficient and 6% increase in object-level detection accuracy. Our method also outperformed the state-of-the-art with on average 3.5% and 7% improvement of region- and contour-based segmentation measures. We also suggest that the proposed method is general in nature and can be applied to other localization problems, as long as the objects of interest can be modeled as salient regions with measurable contrast from the background.
As a future study, we will investigate improving the graphical model for better contour delineation. A potential approach is to incorporate an additional term as the cost of difference between the model image and the measured image, as inspired by
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
YS designed and carried out research and drafted the manuscript. WC discussed and helped to design the methodology and draft the manuscript. HH, YW and MC helped with the draft manuscript. DF coordinated the designed research. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported in part by ARC grants.
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Fire at French Maritime Museum Destroys Three Paintings from the Louvre
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Left: Writer Pankaj Mishra. Right: Curator and Bidoun trustee Dana Farouki, Alia Al-Senussi, collector Mohammed Afkhami, Bidoun contributing editor Shumon Basar (center), and Lord Palumbo (far right). (All photos: Jon Austin)
IT WAS A QUEER CHOICE of venue for a recent benefit for Bidoun Projects. But there we all were, a hundred or so arty misfits and dignitaries gathered on a Thursday evening in the intimate cloisters of the London Sketch Club in Chelsea, an old boys' club if ever there was one. "It smelled like old men when we first got here," one guest whispered as we converged on the building's jaunty salon, where portraits featuring former members of the club (depicted as black silhouettes on unprimed canvases) ran around the upper walls like a frieze. "Talk about postcolonial discourse," said another.
Bidoun has always gravitated toward ambiguous contexts. It began in 2004 as a magazine focused on art and culture in the Middle East, but has since expanded into curatorial and educational projects. Operating as a nonprofit for the past three years, it has managed to artfully flout the conventional opinions and attitudes surrounding much discourse about its subject. "It's almost the perfect choice," artist and Bidoun contributing editor Sophia Al-Maria noted, scanning the room. "Pretty subversive, really." We had been discussing the framed sketches of (female) nudes slung below the portraits of (male) club members—another salient feature of the space. One dealer, rendered giddy by the evening's reminiscence of an older London (and perhaps by a gin or two), recalled earlier years when "you paid one pound to sketch naked women." ("A more innocent time . . . " he continued.)
Left: Tate Modern curator Stuart Comer. Right: Dealer Rose Issa.
Dealer Rose Issa was the first of seven speakers invited to read excerpts from the Bidoun archive, and she smartly chose from Negar Azimi's piece "Fluffy Farhad," on the celebrated Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Tate Modern curator (and, lately, Whitney Biennial impresario) Stuart Comer recited "Imprisoned Airs," an excellent piece on the late, great avant-garde theater director Reza Abdoh cowritten by Reza's brother, Salar. Gemini Kim accompanied each reading on piano, and the whole evening was a genteel illustration of Bidoun's light touch, a playfulness they've cultivated among new generations of writers, artists, and thinkers on the Middle East. Jon Austin, photographing the night, recalled the Soft Power issue (#26) as his highlight, while "mythographer" Marina Warner, before her reading, mentioned the provocative issue devoted to Egypt (#25), in which page headers featured statements like "Why Egypt is not Tunisia."
Azimi noted in conversation that though artists and contributors like Jeremy Deller and Lawrence Weiner were not technically from the region, they certainly fit into the Bidoun "universe." This brand of cultural and social remix suffused the gathering and its eclectic group of guests. By the time contributing editor Shumon Basar stepped in for Deller to read Tom Morton's "House of Dodi" (Deller was stuck at the airport), the room seemed bathed in a warm glow. Said fuzziness was no doubt encouraged by the soft lighting, Persian buffet, and the general familiarity and rapport among guests who included Alia Al-Senussi, Metropolitan Museum wallah (and Bidoun trustee) Sheena Wagstaff, collectors Vanessa Branson and Maryam Eisler, and dealer Sylvia Kouvali. In a nutshell, the night was, borrowing someone else's words: "Weird! But warm. In a Chelsea way."
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Protagonists on both sides of the war debate have been exposed, writes Tony Parkinson.
Hands up those who overestimated the capacity of Saddam Hussein's Iraq to produce and deploy weapons of mass destruction.
I, for one, plead guilty.
It is only of limited comfort that I can cite as co-defendants the combined intelligence agencies of the Western world, along with the "strong presumptions" of former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. For reasons still unknown, widely held expectations have not been borne out by the facts.
Now, hands up those who accused the US, British and Australian governments of lying their way to war, by manufacturing or manipulating evidence of Iraq's weapons stocks.
The Hutton report, published in London yesterday, has delivered a severe rebuke to the British Broadcasting Corporation over unfounded accusations of deception at the highest levels of the Blair Government. Many in Australia have also run with this obscene conspiracy theory. Anyone ready to confess they got that one wrong?
In short, this has not been a good week for either side of the war debate. US weapons inspector David Kay and Britain's Lord Hutton have each delivered sobering reality checks.
Protagonists on both sides have been exposed for filling information gaps with guesswork. In both cases, the tendency has been to suspect the worst, and say so. Now comes the time for reckoning.
One result is that governments in Washington, London and Canberra will face continuing awkward questions over why their pre-war intelligence assessments of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons capabilities were so dramatically askew.
Kay says nothing more substantial is likely to emerge from the search for weapons in Iraq. This places grave question marks over the reliability, at least in the case of Iraq, of the threat assessments provided to governments. It is anything but a reassuring precedent, and it has important implications for the continuing war on terror.
Nobody realistically expects governments and their intelligence agencies to know everything about a suspected danger to their societies before taking action. But, if the radical strategic choices involved in the Bush Administration's doctrine of pre-emption are to be in any way supportable, governments must know with far greater certainty much more than they appeared to know about what was going on inside Iraq.
That said, opponents of the war should pause carefully before claiming any sense of vindication. For they, too, face an array of awkward questions arising from what we have learned since the fall of Saddam.
The Hutton report reminds us of the corrosive dangers of excessive public cynicism about political processes in the Western democracies. Prime Minister Tony Blair has been all but hounded from office on the strength of the BBC reports that Downing Street had "sexed up" an intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons in September 2002 with claims the Government probably knew to be false.
Hutton's exoneration of Blair provides a salutary lesson for the media. As of today, it is the BBC's integrity, not that of Blair, that has become the issue.
Hutton's findings could not be more punishing. The punchline, in essence, was this: the BBC could not be believed when it said the Government could not be believed.
The ramifications extend far beyond Britain. The false accusations against Blair triggered a widespread campaign to discredit the arguments for military intervention in Iraq. If Blair had lied, the argument went, the other core partners in the so-called coalition of the willing, namely George Bush and John Howard, were similarly tainted.
Hutton's findings should prompt contrition among those too eager to subscribe to this dark and dismal proposition. More positively, it might help remove one of the blinding distractions preventing a cogent and clear-headed analysis of whether the war was necessary.
Much has been said already about the changing patterns of behaviour in Iraq's neighbourhood, and the tentative emergence of more moderate voices in the Arab world. One clear plus: Gaddafi's Libya has renounced a nuclear weapons project more advanced than anyone could have imagined.
Big deal, some will say, as they seek to co-opt David Kay's revelations on the failure to find weapons stockpiles in Iraq as confirmation of their belief that the invasion was unjustified.
This is certainly not Kay's view. In fact, the most salient of all the weapons inspector's recent remarks are these: "I actually think what we learned during the inspection made Iraq a more dangerous place, potentially, than, in fact, we thought it was even before the war."
Why so? The Iraqi Survey Group has not solved the riddle of the missing weapons, but its investigations have established the certainty that Iraq would not have complied willingly with the UN as long as Saddam ruled.
The inspectors uncovered a vast infrastructure - scientists, databases and procurement networks - that gave Iraq the "breakout capability" to get back into the gas-and-germ warfare business as soon as the UN was off the case.
And reports are now emerging of how the Baathist regime was working systematically to achieve precisely this purpose, using oil money to bribe individuals and organisations inside and outside Iraq to galvanise opposition to sanctions.
Moreover, Saddam's Iraq had indeed become a viper's nest for terrorists, including al-Qaeda operatives. The capture of these extremists continues in Iraq, and links to the former regime are slowly but surely emerging. An imminent threat? Maybe not. A profound threat? Inevitably.
Finally, there is the harrowing evidence of the regime's monstrosity, with the uncovering of 300,000 corpses. Saddam was not just another tinpot dictator. This was slaughter on a historic scale.
On the basis of what we have learned since the fall of Saddam, the choices for liberal consciences must surely be clearer.
Western society can either confront a vicious and aggressive totalitarian impulse in the Middle East, for which Saddam's Iraq had become a crucible. Or we can run the risk of inventing excuses for doing nothing.
Tony Parkinson is international editor of The Age.
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Dennis Rodman has been hit with 104 hours of community service and three years of informal probation for failing to pay child support.
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SYRIA has banned Turkish flights from its airspace and Turkey has made a tit-for-tat move, as regime forces pressed their counter-attack against rebels to regain territory lost in northern battlegrounds.
The reprisal - for Turkey confiscating cargo that Russia said was radar equipment being flown from Moscow to Damascus - came despite a flurry of diplomacy intended to calm soaring tensions between the neighbours.
Syria accuses Turkey of channelling arms from Gulf Arab states to rebels fighting its troops, who have been under pressure across large swaths of the north, including in the second city, Aleppo.
The Syrian flight ban went into force on Saturday night ''in accordance with the principle of reciprocity'', Syrian Arab News Agency said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara had already banned Syrian civilian flights from its airspace. ''We closed our airspace to Syrian civilian flights as we have previously done for Syrian military flights,'' he said.
''As we have established that civilian flights were being misused by the Syrian defence ministry to transport military material, we sent a note yesterday to the Syrian side.''
Ankara has taken an increasingly strident line towards its southern neighbour after a shell fired from inside Syria killed five Turks this month.
It has since repeatedly hit back for cross-border fire, prompting growing UN concern and a hasty series of diplomatic contacts.
Tensions from the conflict are also being felt in neighbouring Lebanon, and hundreds of people took to the streets of Beirut for two separate rallies, one supporting the Damascus regime and the other calling for its downfall. With the violence raging, UN and Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sunday went to Iran, which handed him an ''unofficial detailed proposal'' aimed at ending the conflict in its closest ally, Syria.
Meanwhile, an international human rights group says it has obtained new evidence that Syrian troops are using cluster bombs - widely banned munitions that pose a grave risk to civilians because they burst into bomblets over large areas and often linger on the ground, detonating only when touched.
Steve Goose, of US-based Human Rights Watch, says cluster bombs ''have been comprehensively banned by most nations, and Syria should immediately stop all use of these indiscriminate weapons that continue to kill and maim for years''.
Human Rights Watch has previously reported cluster bomb remnants found in Homs and nearby Hama.
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Rotten: Bling is bad and friends are good in this story of temptation, rivalry and buck-wild cheerleaders set in the world of Detroit street basketball.
Rotten: Much as they would like it to, basketball can't save the youthful inner-city players here. Nor does the ultra-fast-paced street version of the sport save this movie from predictability and tedium.
Rotten: The underground version of basketball known as streetball comes above ground in Crossover, but the fascinating freeform game gets screened out by a ludicrous soap opera with poor dramatic moves.
Rotten: While director-screenwriter Preston A. Whitmore II's film is to be admired for its proponing the values of a higher education over the dream of a career in the NBA, its dialogue, characterizations and situations rarely transcend the level of cliche.
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Not so.Note the distinct drop in performance across almost all the benchmarks on Dec 30, including popular programs like bzip2 and gzip.
To my eyes, the specint 2000 mean went UP by about 1% for the base -O3 compilation. The peak enabled more unrolling, which is helped by additional range information provided by absence of -frwapv.
So, I'd say this run would suggest enabling -fwrapv for at least -O1 and -O2. Also, note that we never have focussed on performance with -fwrapv, and it is quite likely there is quite some improvement possible.
I'd really like using -fwrapv by default for -O, -O[s12]. The benefit of many programs moving from "undefined semantics" to "implementation-defined semantics, overflow wraps like in old compilers" far outweighs even an average performance loss of 2% as seen in specfp.
As undefined execution can result in arbitrary badness, this is really at odds with the increasing need for many programs to be secure. Since it is almost impossible to prove that programs do not have signed integer overflow, it makes far more sense to define behavior in such cases. Note that were talking defaults: for not-so-sophisticated programmers, we should focus on being safe. People smart enough to proof their program can't cause signed integer overflow, can certainly figure out compiler options to disable -fwrapv.
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When re-branding, would the company
normally be changed? Or not usually?
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Are you talking for legal purposes...?
I changed the name of my "company" but only in the sense of how people see it...
Technically I am still operating under my original name for taxes and stuff.
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Are you talking for legal purposes?
Nooo, not that.
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Look at the big companies out there. Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Disney..............
When they have all changed looks, re-branded say, they kept their names. With the exception of a few companies that changed names but for a different reason.
Whats your purpose of rebranding?
We are in the process of re-branding (kind of). We are opening up our brand to more than just photos. So our name Photos by Nick is not going to cut it anymore in the future. We are becoming a multimedia house and providing photo, video, audio, design, and more. So our current brand would transition in to a sub brand that would cover our weddings section.
Are you thinking of something along those lines? if so, then yes your name would change. but if you are servicing the same industry and type of client then you would keep the name.
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There is no "normal" rebranding. Companies rebrand -- individual products, product lines, divisions, or the whole business -- because they have identified specific changes they believe they should make and which justify the costs associated with rebranding.
You might change the name of the company if, for example, you believe it is a weak trademark, or you conclude your current name or branding collateral are not suitable for your target market, or your brand has been damaged in some way and you believe a fresh start is the only way to rebuild goodwill.
A trademark might be weak if it is merely descriptive of the goods or services, or is otherwise not strongly distinctive. Companies that change the entire company name sometimes do so to increase distinctiveness. Small businesses often start off with heavily descriptive wording as the brand in order to communicate to potential clients what the brand stands for, and later decide distinctiveness is more important.
Take me, for example. "Ian Ivey Photography" is partly descriptive. The word "photography" is a generic term for what I do. "Ian Ivey," my name, is distinctive in its combination -- there aren't that many people with my first and last name combination in the world -- but the use of the primary photographer's first and last name, plus the word "photography," is about as common as lies at a political convention.
Consequently, my business name is really only as distinctive as my name is memorable. At some point, probably soon, I'll remove the word "photography" from my branding, because including it actually diminishes the distinctiveness of my brand.
So, that's one reason to rebrand: to increase a mark's distinctiveness.
I'm also in the process of rebranding because my original logo is lame. It looks cheesy and fails to convey the sophistication I wish to communicate based on my current approach. I don't need to change my name to achieve that goal. However, I do believe removing the descriptive matter from my mark is likely to improve my brand image marginally: I believe it looks stronger, or more confident, to leave off descriptive matter.
So, as others have asked, what are your goals? What about your current brand are you dissatisfied with?
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As a marketing and entrepreneur person, I used to do a lot more work in the branding and brand building arena. Here's my 2 pennies:
Rebranding is changing the image of your business. This cannot be achieved with just a name change. A name change however can be part of the rebranding. The brand is a symbol that distinctly identifies your products/services. Companies normally re-brand their products and services to either appeal more to the target market, combat negative perception of the existing brand, or communicating a new, positive message.
I recently moved from NYC to Atlanta and changed my business name, DBA, FEIN, and logo to rebrand to my current brand. The reasons I did it were to appeal more to the target market and I wanted to communicate a new, positive message. My old business in NYC was technology based so I had a lot of sharp angles, and a more art deco type look to things. The new brand is simple, rounded, easy to understand, and I think appeals to more of my target audience which is the bride and groom with great simple tastes that are on a budget.
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Last Saturday, the 25th annual (mostly) African American college students spring break party called Orange Crush came to Tybee Island. The rain came and it kept many away.
However a crowd showed up. There were tons of police. The island felt like it was under marshal law.
I rode my tricycle through the crowd. All of the young people I engaged were open, respectful and enjoying a good time.
The Ocean Plaza was sold out with the spring break partygoers, as well as all motels on the island.
The largest hotel on Tybee is located at the base of the Walter Parker Pier. The county-owned pier was padlocked. A shiny new padlock, no doubt purchased and mounted just for the occasion, was in place. Why was it padlocked? Surely there were enough police to protect the pier. (Protect from what? I don't know.)
Always when there is a crowd, order must be maintained. But the Orange Crush police presence was over the top. Why not use more undercover cops and show less intimidation?
Tybee welcomes every other large party. Why is Orange Crush treated differently?
A padlocked pier and massive police happens to no other group. Chatham County commissioners, why was the pier padlocked during Orange Crush?
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It might be nice to secure cargo with an extra strap so it doesn't shift in tossing seas. But that means time and extra equipment and that's money.
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Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay special tribute to one of Oregon's finest citizens and most dedicated public servants, the late Benjamin "Kip" Lombard, Jr. It is with great sadness that I report that Kip passed away last year at the age of sixty-two, though he lives on in the memories of the many people he touched during his life and the grateful citizens on whose behalf he worked so tirelessly.
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