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dc.contributor.author | Ochola, Jerry | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hume, Cameron | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bezuidenhout, Deon | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-29T05:49:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-29T05:49:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2024.106573 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/9383 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The concentration of the polymer in the electrospinning solution greatly influences the mechanical behaviour of electrospun vascular grafts due to the influence on scaffold morphology. The scaffold morphology (fiber diameter, fiber orientation and inter-fiber voids) of the grafts plays an important role in their behaviour during use. Even though manual methods and complex algorithms have been used so far for characterisation of the morphology of electrospun architecture, they still have several drawbacks that limit their reliability. This study therefore uses conventional, statistical region merging and a hybrid image segmentation algorithm, to characterise the morphology of the electrospun vascular grafts. Consequently, vascular grafts were fabricated using an in-house electrospinning equipment using three polymer material concentration levels (14%, 16% and 18%) of medical-grade thermoplastic polyurethane (Pellethane®). The image thresholding and segementation algorithms were then used for segmentation of SEM images extracted from the polymer grafts and then morphological parameters were investigated in terms of fiber diameter, fiber orientation, and interfiber spaces (pore area and porosity). The results indicate that electrospun image segmentation was "best" when the hybrid algorithm and the conventional algorithm was used, which implied that fiber property values computed from the hybrid algorithm were closed to the manually measurements especially for the 14% PU with fiber diameter 2.2%, fiber orientation 7.6% and porosity at 1.9%. However there was higher disperity between the manual and hybrid algorithm. This suggests more fiber uniformity in the 14%PU potentially affected the accuracy of the hybrid algorithm. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.subject | Morphological properties | en_US |
dc.subject | Fibrous electrospun polyurethane | en_US |
dc.title | Analysis of morphological properties of fibrous electrospun polyurethane grafts using image segmentation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | School of Biological and Physical Sciences |
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