Fig 20. The proposed framework can properly extract highly overlapping fibers.
(a) and (d) Osteoblast image. (b) and (e) Extracted fibers located near the nucleus. (c) and (f) Detected filaments network. Top row: Osteoblasts grown in normal conditions; Bottom row: Osteoblasts grown under fluid shear stress. The arrows depict the shear stress flow direction around ≈ 80° (Fig 4b).