DiameterJ: A validated open source nanofiber diameter measurement tool

Biomaterials

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 327-338

  Hotaling, Nathan A ^a   Bharti, Kapil ^b   Kriel, Haydn ^c   Simon, Carl G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The Stellenbosch Nanofiber Company (Pty) Ltd   (South Africa)

Author keywords

FIJI; Image analysis; ImageJ; Morphology; Scaffold; Structure

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFIBERS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SCAFFOLDS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TISSUE ENGINEERING;

DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; FIJI; IMAGEJ; MANUAL MEASUREMENTS; NANOFIBER SCAFFOLD; PIXEL TRANSFORMATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOFIBER;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENSITY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINLESS STEEL WIRE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOFIBERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 84939167165     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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