Re: Blood vessel branching analysis

Posted by Michael Doube on Jul 16, 2009; 2:49pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Blood-vessel-branching-analysis-tp3691742p3691743.html

Beverly

You could try AnalyzeSkeleton_ after skeletonising your network, which
gives branch lengths, junction counts etc.:

http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=plugin:analysis:analyzeskeleton:start
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=plugin:morphology:skeletonize3d:start

If you want thicknesses, you could try the Local Thickness plugin, and
correlate the 2 resulting images:

http://www.optinav.com/Local_Thickness.htm

Mike

Schaffer, Beverly wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
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> I'm a complete novice with ImageJ software. I want to use the software
> to analyze both the size and number of branches in quail embryo blood
> vessels. I've seen papers that reference ImageJ as the software used for
> this analysis, but I haven't been able to find anything more specific.
> I've tried searching the help function of ImageJ without success.
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> Does anyone know or have an idea how this can be done?
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> Beverly Schaffer, PhD
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> Senior Research Associate
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> University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
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> Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute
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> [hidden email]