Automatic extraction and measurement of leukocyte motion in microvessels using spatiotemporal image analysis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 225-236

  Sato, Yoshinobu ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^a   Zoroofi, Reza A ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Tamura, Shinichi ^a   Shiga, Takeshi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood rheology; deformable contour; image motion analysis; image segmentation; leukocyte; microcirculation; perceptual grouping; spatiotemporal image

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE MOTILITY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL MOVEMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTES; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; RHEOLOGY; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0030988627     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.563292     Document Type: Article

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