Statistical analysis of collagen alignment in ligaments by scale-space analysis

The authors propose a computational technique for statistical analysis of collagen alignment in ligament images using the scale-space approach. In this method, a ligament image is preprocessed by a sequence of filters which are second derivatives of two-dimensional Gaussian functions with different scales. This gives a set of zero-crossing maps (the scale space) from which a stability map is generated. Significant linear patterns are captured by analyzing the stability map. The directional information in terms of orientation distributions of the collagen fibrils in the image and the area covered by the fibrils in specific directions is extracted for statistical analysis. Examples illustrating the performance of this method with scanning electron microscope images of the collagen fibrils in healing rabbit medial collateral ligaments are presented.<<ETX>>

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