Automatic tracking of labeled red blood cells in microchannels

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 977-987

  Pinho, Diana ^a,b   Lima, Rui ^a,b   Pereira, Ana I ^a,c   Gayubo, Fernando ^d  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d Centro de Automatizacion Robotica y Tecnologias de La Informacion y de La Fabricacion   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic method; Image analysis; in vitro blood flow; Microchannels; Microcirculation; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC TRACKING; BLOOD FLOW; GLASS CAPILLARIES; MANUAL TRACKING; RED BLOOD CELL; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING;

BLOOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCHANNELS; MICROCIRCULATION;

CELLS;

EID: 84883654245     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2526     Document Type: Article

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