Efficient, interactive, and three-dimensional segmentation of cell nuclei in thick tissue sections

Cytometry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 275-286

  Lockett, Stephen J ^a   Sudar, Damir ^a   Thompson, Curtis T ^b   Pinkel, Dan ^a   Gray, Joe W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Interactive segmentation; Tissue analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; SKIN;

EID: 0031968289     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19980401)31:4<275::AID-CYTO7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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