Can centroids be numbered and then how would new centroids be added to the list?

I am trying to track bacteria over many generations using image analysis. I am at the point where I am trying to track where they are and average out the positions over many images. Is there a way of making it so the same centroid is indexed over a series of images e.g. if there are two cells and they both divide, the original centroids are 1 and 2 and the two new ones are 3 and 4?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Well, yes and no. There is nothing built in to do that. You can do it, but you'd have to keep track of all the bookkeeping yourself, "manually".

Answer 2

[Swarooph]

To add to the answer above, the following documentation page has this approach explained with a couple of examples linked in it: Multiple Object Tracking.