Automated tracing and change analysis of angiogenic vasculature from in vivo multiphoton confocal image time series

Microvascular Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-125

  Abdul Karim, Muhammad Amri ^a   Al Kofahi, Khalid ^a   Brown, Edward B ^b   Jain, Rakesh K ^b   Roysam, Badrinath ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Automated morphometry; In vivo change analysis; Multiphoton microscopy; Tumor vasculature; Vasculature segmentation; Vasculature tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER MEMORY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0043123103     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2862(03)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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