Characterization of the cellular structure based on user-interactive image analysis procedures

Abstract

This work addresses the development of a novel user-interactive image analysis computed technique to determine the main characteristics of the cellular structure of cellular materials with any density, morphology, and/or cell size from micrographs obtained from any source—scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, etc. The specific analyzed parameters are cell size (mean cell diameter), cell anisotropy, cell size distribution, and cell density. A comparison with several conventionally used methods is also presented in this work. The development of such application offers a quick (<3 min per micrograph) and complete characterization of the cellular structure, with reproducible results and good agreement with the typical manual measurement methods.