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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2020

Three-dimensional computation of fibre orientation, diameter and branching in segmented image stacks of fibrous networks.

Jeremy D Eekhoff, Spencer P Lake

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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2 authors.

Jeremy D EekhoffDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Spencer P LakeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.

Funding

Skeletal Disorders Training ProgramT32AR060719 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Roberto Civitelli · 2011 to 2026
$4.6M
INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN MECHANOBIOLOGY FROM NM TO CMT32EB018266 · NIBIB · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BAYLY, PHILIP V · 2014 to 2018
$987k
NIAMS NIH HHS T32 AR060719NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB018266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibre topography of the extracellular matrix governs local mechanical properties and cellular behaviour including migration and gene expression. While quantifying properties of the fibrous network provides valuable data that could be used across a breadth of biomedical disciplines, most available techniques are limited to two dimensions and, therefore, do not fully capture the architecture of three-dimensional (3D) tissue. The currently available 3D techniques have limited accuracy and applicability and many are restricted to a specific imaging modality. To address this need, we developed a novel fibre analysis algorithm capable of determining fibre orientation, fibre diameter and fibre branching on a voxel-wise basis in image stacks with distinct fibre populations. The accuracy of the technique is demonstrated on computer-generated phantom image stacks spanning a range of features and complexities, as well as on two-photon microscopy image stacks of elastic fibres in bovine tendon and dermis. Additionally, we propose a measure of axial spherical variance which can be used to define the degree of fibre alignment in a distribution of 3D orientations. This method provides a useful tool to quantify orientation distributions and variance on image stacks with distinguishable fibres or fibre-like structures.

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AlgorithmsExtracellular MatrixAnimalsCattleImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalPhantoms, Imagingbiomaterial characterizationextracellular matrix characterizationfibre analysisimage analysis

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PMID32752994
PMCPMC7482563

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