2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Capillary Blood Vessel Tortuosity Measurement Using Graph Analysis
Authors : Mariusz Paradowski, Halina Kwasnicka, Krzysztof Borysewicz
Published in: Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.