Abstract
Micro anatomical structure analysis is an attractive research field in the medical imaging field. Human anatomy is described in wide range of scales, e.g. macro structures such as organ shape, fine blood vessel structures inside organs, micro and cell-level structures observed on histopathological images. For instance, macro anatomical structure information such as shape of the hearts can be observed using clinical CT or MRI. Also, shape information of micro luminal structures can be observed on micro CT images of the lung. To obtain micro anatomical structure information from high-resolution images, image analysis plays an important role. In this paper, we demonstrate examples of image analysis of micro CT images of fixated lung tissues scanned by a desktop-type micro CT scanner, and micro or refraction-contrast X-ray CT images of heart specimens.
