3-D quantification and visualization of vascular structures from confocal microscopic images using skeletonization and voxel-coding

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 791-813

  Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a,b,c   Shahrokni, Ali ^b,c,e   Khalighi, Mohammad Mehdi ^b,d,f   Zhang, Zheng G ^d,g   Zoroofi, Reza A ^b   Maddah, Mahnaz ^b,c   Chopp, Michael ^d,g,h  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^d HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^g HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^h OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Distance transform; Image analysis; Medial axis; Object quantification; Skeletonization; Vascular analysis; Voxel coding

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; MEDIAL AXIS; OBJECT QUANTIFICATION; SKELETONIZATION; VASCULAR ANALYSIS; VOXEL CODING;

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27744609328     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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