| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of obtaining micro-vessel density (MVD) measurements from an image of biological vasculature containing a plurality of vessels.SOLUTION: The method comprises an act of analyzing a region of interest of an image for each of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins being associated with a predetermined range of vessel sizes, the act of analyzing the region of interest including determining which of the plurality of bins that portions of any vessel subject matter identified in the region of interest belong to based on a size associated with the respective portions of the vessel subject matter, and associating each portion of the vessel subject matter with the corresponding one of the plurality of bins to which the portion belongs, and computing at least one measurement for each of the plurality of bins, the at least one measurement being related to the MVD of the portions of vessel subject matter associated with the respective bin. |
