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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Meas Sci Technol. 2013 Aug;24(8):085702. doi: 10.1088/0957-0233/24/8/085702

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustrations of difficulties in automatic segmentation of collagen gels; (a)-(c) three examples acquired by a digital camera at different contraction stages, each accompanied to the right by a smaller image delineating the gel boundary. Rulers in the images are used scale the measurement results. Difficulty I: variations of intensity and shape appearances; Difficulty II: fuzzy boundaries; Difficulty III: color distribution inconsistency.