Injury to the nervous system can lead to irreversible problems as nervous tissues have limited regenerative capability. Therefore it is imperative to find an objective, reliable, cheap, and easy-to-apply method that separates nervous fibers from muscles and blood vessels. The aim of this study is to determine structural differences that can aid in easy and reliable identification of nervous fibers. We analyzed light reflectance from these tissues from 230 nm to 1000 nm and found that in the range of 400 nm-600 nm nervous fibers have higher reflectance in comparison to others. Therefore, we generated distinct features in this range and utilized support vector machine to automatically classify samples. Classification performance demonstrated that light reflectance is a good candidate feature that can help to classify nervous tissue.
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Tufan, K., & Belli, A. K. (2015). Analysis of nervous fiber, muscle, and blood vessels using their ulraviolet near infrared reflectance characteristics. Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, 26, S2179–S2185. https://doi.org/10.3233/BME-151523
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