Vessel Diameter Measurement in Intravital Microscopy
Jaesung Lee
In microcirculation studies, the blood vessel diameter is often measured to
quantify the effects of various stimuli on circulation system. The vessel
diameter is measured in intravital videos spanning several minutes, and The
biological researchers have the burden of hand-measuring the diameter in
hundreds of image frames. The goal of the automated tracking of vessel
diameter is to measure accurately the vessel diameter in the intravital video
microscopy.
The algorithm is based on feature tracking method, which tracks two seed points
throughout the entire video microscopy. Our study using intravital and
synthetic video shows that our automated algorithm to measure vessel diameter
is both faster and more reliable than the manual measurement. [Lee, ISBI07]
Presentations and Publications
- J. Lee, A. Jirapatnakul, A. P. Reeves, W. Crowe, and S. Sarelius.
Vessel Diameter Tracking in Intravital Microscopy Image Sequences.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to
Nano, pp. 360-363, April 2007.
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