Analysing nerve sections...!?

From: Gopsworth (jingyjangy_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: 24 Dec 2004 08:51:20 -0800

Hello,

I am hoping someone will be able to help here...

I am doing research into the surgical treatment of certain types of
paralysis, part of which involves taking nerve biopsies and counting
the number of new nerve fibres growing in them. However there is no
current way to automate this process and, up to now, this has been
achieved by printing out an image of the slides (blown up by 2000
times) and tracing around them using a graphics pad. The software
attached to the graphics pad counts the new fibres and works out their
surface area.

There are about 1500 new nerve fibres per nerve section, and about 150
nerve sections. Each nerve section takes about 6 hours of work to
analyse, making about 1000 man hours of work just to do the
processing. The number of people on this team = 1 (Me). This is not
fun.

This is the 21st century! There HAS to be a better way of automating
this process!!

Now I know most photo editing software will be able to generate an
outline of an image from a photo - in this case, it should be able to
convert photos of my nerve slides to an image of lots of little
circles. What I then need is some way of counting those little circles
and working out their areas.

Does anyone have any suggestions?!!

Gopsworth

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