An automatic method to track red blood cells in microchannels

• Author(s): Pinho, D. ; Gayubo, F. ; Pereira, Ana I. ; Lima, R.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/10371
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Automatic method; Track red blood cells; Microchannels
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

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.