Automated tracking and analysis of phospholipid vesicle contours in phase contrast microscopy images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 957-966

  Usenik, Peter ^a   Vrtovec, Tomaž ^a   Pernuš, Franjo ^a   Likar, Boštjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Contour analysis; Contour tracking; Phase contrast microscopy; Phospholipid vesicles; Thermal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR ANALYSIS; CONTOUR TRACKING; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

LIPOSOMES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO RECORDING;

PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; 2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; CHOLESTEROL; ELASTICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79961166365     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-011-0789-0     Document Type: Article

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