Extracting generalised cylinder models for dendritic trees from 3-D image stacks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3261, Issue , 1998, Pages 149-158

  Xu, Fenglian ^a   Lewis, Paul H ^a   Chad, John E ^a   Wheal, Howard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D curvilinear feature extraction; 3 D minimum cost path; 3 D minimum spanning tree; 3 D reconstruction; 3 D thinning algorithm; Generalised cylinder; Laser scanning confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TISSUE;

DENDRITIC TREE; GENERALIZED CYLINDER; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL CURVILINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL MINIMUM COST PATH; THREE DIMENSIONAL MINIMUM SPANNING TREE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032224709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.310548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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