Advances in automated 3-D image analysis of cell populations imaged by confocal microscopy

Cytometry

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-234

  Ancin, Hakan ^a   Roysam, Badrinath ^a   Dufresne, Thomas E ^b   Chestnut, Matthew M ^b   Ridder, Gregg M ^b   Szarowski, Donald H ^c   Turner, James N ^a,c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D watershed algorithms; Adaptive segmentation; Automated 3 D image analysis; Cell counting and population analysis; Confocal microscopy; Tissue architecture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029985043     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19961101)25:3<221::AID-CYTO3>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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