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Capillary Blood Vessel Tortuosity Measurement Using Graph Analysis

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2009)

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Capillaroscopy is a branch of medicine which allows to diagnose various kinds of rheumatic diseases on the basis of observation of visual properties of nail-fold capillaries. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels of various shapes and sizes. Blood vessel tortuosity is one of medical signs. The paper presents a novel blood vessel tortuosity measure designed for capillary analysis. It represents the vessel as a graph and utilizes non-directional and directional traversal algorithms.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

    Mariusz Paradowski & Halina Kwasnicka

  2. Department of Rheumatology and Internal Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland

    Krzysztof Borysewicz

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  1. University of Chile, Republica 701, 8370439, Santiago, Chile

    Juan D. Velásquez  & Sebastián A. Ríos  & 

  2. University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Paradowski, M., Kwasnicka, H., Borysewicz, K. (2009). Capillary Blood Vessel Tortuosity Measurement Using Graph Analysis. In: Velásquez, J.D., Ríos, S.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04592-9_17

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