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24 August 2015 Visualization of deep blood vessels in speckle imaging using homogeneity measurement of the co-occurrence matrix
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Proceedings Volume 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology; 96601O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196206
Event: SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 2015, Guanajuato, Mexico
Abstract
The blood flow velocity optical monitoring techniques, such as laser speckle velocimetry, are attractive due its noninvasive character, but they are limited to superficial blood vessels. The visualization of deep blood vessel is difficult because of the highly scattering coefficient of the biological tissue. There are some techniques that allow the visualization of deep blood vessels, for example: optical clearing, Magnetomotive Laser Speckle Imaging and Pulsed Photo-Thermal Radiometry, unfortunately these techniques use an external agent to improve the visualization of blood vessels. In this work we improve the visualization and location of in-vitro deep blood vessels by speckle image processing without an external agents. The proposed methodology is based in a homogeneity measurement of the co-occurrence matrix by the direct processing of the speckle image. Our technique is able to determine the edges of a deep blood vessel and therefore improves its visualization.
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Jose Angel Arias-Cruz, Cruz Elizabeth Perez-Corona, Hayde Peregrina-Barreto, Ruben Ramos-Garcia, and Julio Cesar Ramirez-San-Juan "Visualization of deep blood vessels in speckle imaging using homogeneity measurement of the co-occurrence matrix ", Proc. SPIE 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 96601O (24 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196206
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KEYWORDS
Blood vessels

Speckle

Visualization

Scattering

Image analysis

Image processing

Laser scattering

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