Red blood cell tracking using optical flow methods

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 991-998

  Guo, Dongmin ^a   Van De Ven, Anne L ^b   Zhou, Xiaobo ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo cell tracking; intravital microscopy imaging; optical flow; red blood cells; scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) flow

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; FLOW VELOCITY; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTICAL FLOWS;

EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; IN-VIVO; INTRAVITAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FLOW METHODS; RED BLOOD CELL; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS;

CELLS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CELL TRACKING; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; ERYTHROCYTES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; OPTICAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84900837087     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2281915     Document Type: Article

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