Researchers believe that there are huge opportunities for integrating computer science, and in particular computer vision, into health care and medical research, making life easier for researchers, physicians and ultimately patients. This is leading to the development of powerful tools to aid in bioengineering research. They are developing a technology that will automate the arduous process of analyzing the vast amount of data necessary for tissue engineering. In their research, seek to automate blood vessel counting in images, and to make the distinction between data collection and analysis more clear.
Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that offers the promise of improving, repairing and/or replacing damaged tissue in the human body. Research in this area involves the development of various biomaterials and processes that facilitate the fabrication of such tissue. In this research project, the focus is on quantifying arteriole formation. An arteriole is one of the small terminal branches of an artery, especially one that connects with a capillary. Collecting this vast amount of data is currently done manually and requires an intensive amount of time and meticulous effort. More information: