Label-free optical lymphangiography: Development of an automatic segmentation method applied to optical coherence tomography to visualize lymphatic vessels using Hessian filters

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Yousefi, Siavash ^a   Qin, Jia ^a   Zhi, Zhongwei ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic segmentation; lymphatic vessels; multi scale Hessian filters; optical coherence tomography; optical microangiography

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MICRO-ANGIOGRAPHY; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROCIRCULATION; VISUALIZATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84884544400     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.8.086004     Document Type: Article

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