Thesis: Biological dosimetry is the branch of health physics dealing with the estimation of ionizing radiation doses from biomarkers. The current gold standard (defined by the IAEA) relies on estimating how frequently dicentric chromosomes appear in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Variations in acquisition conditions and chromosome morphology makes this a challenging object detection problem. Furthermore, the need for an accurate estimation of the average number of dicentric per cell means that a large number of image has to be processed. Human counting is intrinsically limited, as cognitive load is high and the number of specialist insufficient in the context of a large-scale exposition. The main goal of this PhD is to use recent developments in computer vision brought by deep learning, especially for object detection. The main contribution of this thesis is a proof of concept for a dicentric chromosome detection model. This model agregates several Unet models to reach a high level of performance and quantify its prediction uncertainty, which is a stringent requirement in a medical setting.