Automated tracing and volume measurements of neurons from 3‐D confocal fluorescence microscopy data

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 103-114

  COHEN, A R ^a   ROYSAM, B ^a   TURNER, J N ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated neuron tracing; computer vision for microscopy; confocal microscopy; three dimensional computational microscopy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NEURONS; TOPOLOGY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

3-D IMAGE; AUTOMATED NEURON TRACING; AUTOMATED TRACINGS; COMPUTATIONAL MICROSCOPIES; COMPUTER VISION FOR MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPH REPRESENTATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; NEURON TRACINGS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER VISION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0028289552     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1994.tb03433.x     Document Type: Article

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