An automatic method to track red blood cells in microchannels

Image analysis is extremely important to obtain crucial information about the blood phenomena in micro-circulation. The current study proposes an automatic method for segmentation and tracking red blood cells (RBCs) flowing through a 100 μm Glass capillary. The original images were obtained by means...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pinho, Diana (author)
Outros Autores: Gayubo, Fernando (author), Pereira, Ana I. (author), Lima, R. (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:por
Publicado em: 2014
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/10371
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/10371
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Resumo:Image analysis is extremely important to obtain crucial information about the blood phenomena in micro-circulation. The current study proposes an automatic method for segmentation and tracking red blood cells (RBCs) flowing through a 100 μm Glass capillary. The original images were obtained by means of a confocal system and then processed in Matlab using the Image Processing Toolbox. The automatic measurements ob-tained with the proposed automatic method are compared with a manual tracking method using a plugin from ImageJ.