The flying cylinder: A new algorithm for filament recognition in noisy stereo images

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-29

  Piñol I Margalef, Francesc ^a   Furrer, Patrick ^b   Kunt, Murat ^a   Dubochet, Jacques ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DNA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0029881548     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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