Automatic tracking and measurement of the motion of blood cells in microvessels based on analysis of multiple spatiotemporal images

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Yuan ^a   Zhao, Zhimin ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Li, Hongjun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

blood cell tracking; spatiotemporal image; trace extraction; trace fusion; trace grouping; velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SERVOMECHANISMS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMATIC TRACKING; BLOOD CELL VELOCITY; BLOOD CELLS; FILTERING FUNCTIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGES; STEERABLE FILTERS; TRACE GROUPING; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

CELLS;

EID: 79952747736     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/4/045803     Document Type: Article

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