Abstract
There is an increasing recognition that atherosclerotic lesion composition, rather than size, is the determinant of acute events. Immunostaining is a commonly used method to characterize atherosclerotic lesion compositions. Here, we describe a color segmentation-based approach in HSI (hue, saturation, and intensity) color mode, which minimizes subjectivity and produces accurate and consistent quantifications of atherosclerotic lesion compositions.
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Congqing Wu is supported by an American Heart Association Postdoctoral fellow award (16POST31140008). The authors’ research work is supported by an Institutional Development Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P20 GM103527 and R01 under grant numbers HL107319 and HL133723 from the National Institutes of Health of the United States of America. The content in this manuscript is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Wu, C., Daugherty, A., Lu, H. (2017). A Color Segmentation-Based Method to Quantify Atherosclerotic Lesion Compositions with Immunostaining. In: Thatcher, S. (eds) The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1614. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7030-8_2
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