Automated sizing of DNA fragments in atomic force microscope images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 667-672

  Spisz, T S ^a   Fang, Y ^b   Reeves, R H ^b   Seymour, C K ^a   Bankman, I N ^a   Hoh, J H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA sizing; Image processing; Length determination; Scanning force microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DNA FRAGMENT LENGTH; DNA SIZING;

DNA;

DNA FRAGMENT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; OPERATOR;

EID: 0032211120     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02518867     Document Type: Article

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