Automatic tracking of labeled red blood cells in microchannels

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Diana Pinho (Author) FEUP; Fernando Gayubo (Author) Other; Ana I. Pereira (Author) Other; Rui Lima (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Vol. 29 No. 9

Pages: 977-987

ISSN: 2040-7939

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Indexing

ISI Web of Science

Scopus

INSPEC

Associated Projects

ANEURYSM - ANEURYSM - Estudo Hemodinâmico em Aneurismas Cerebrais

CSD-Chip - CSD-Chip - Desenvolvimento de um biochip para a separação e deformação de células sanguíneas

Hemo-Networks - Hemo-Networks- Investigação experimental e numérica dos factores que influenciam o escoamento de sangue em redes microvasculares

Other information

DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2526

Abstract (EN): The current study proposes an automatic method for the segmentation and tracking of red blood cells flowing through a 100-m glass capillary. The original images were obtained by means of a confocal system and then processed in MATLAB using the Image Processing Toolbox. The measurements obtained with the proposed automatic method were compared with the results determined by a manual tracking method. The comparison was performed by using both linear regressions and Bland–Altman analysis. The results have shown a good agreement between the two methods. Therefore, the proposed automatic method is a powerful way to provide rapid and accurate measurements for in vitro blood experiments in microchannels.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11