Computer vision analysis of collagen fiber bundles in the adventitia of human blood vessels

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-129

  Elbischger, Pierre J ^a   Bischof, Horst ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a   Regitnig, Peter ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomechanic modeling; collagen fibers; computer vision; microscopic images; soft tissue; structural analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER VISION; DISEASES; FIBERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; COLLAGEN FIBER; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; ORIENTATION STATISTICS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SOFT TISSUE; STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT;

BLOOD VESSELS;

COLLAGEN;

ADVENTITIA; ALGORITHM; HUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADVENTITIA; ALGORITHMS; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84887261452     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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