Biomedical Image Processing / Medical Image Processing
Mohammad Hosein Miranbeigi; Leila Mohammadi; Sahar Moghimi; Giti Torkaman
Volume 3, Issue 1 , June 2009, , Pages 15-24
Abstract
Collagen content and its configuration are considered to be among important criteria of healing in tissues. Therefore, developing a method to estimate these factors can benefit physicians in terms of valuable information. In this paper, we examine variation of collagens in tissue mimicking phantoms as ...
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Collagen content and its configuration are considered to be among important criteria of healing in tissues. Therefore, developing a method to estimate these factors can benefit physicians in terms of valuable information. In this paper, we examine variation of collagens in tissue mimicking phantoms as well as in vivo tissue taking advantage of applying image processing techniques on ultrasound images of samples. In phantoms, as the base tissue we have used agar-water matrix material and graphite to simulate collagen, respectively. We also have used different concentrations of graphite to simulate different contents of collagen according to attenuation coefficient of ultrasound waves in soft tissue and its correlation with weight ratio of graphite. Experimental and simulation results show that increase in concentration of graphite in phantoms results in higher energy and more contrast level in B-Mode images (r=0.99, p
