End-to-end linkage (EEL) clustering algorithm: A study on the distribution of Meissner corpuscles in the skin

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-28

  Güçlü, Burak ^a,b   Bolanowski, Stanley J ^a,b   Pawson, Lorraine ^a,b  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; End to end linkage; Meissner corpuscle; Single linkage

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

CHAIN-LIKE; END TO END; END-TO-END LINKAGE; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; HYPERSPHERICAL; INTER-GROUP; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MULTI VARIABLES; SINGLE LINKAGE; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CASE STUDY; CAT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; END TO END LINKAGE; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSE ORGAN; SINGLE LINKAGE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOUCH;

EID: 0043064248     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024466617694     Document Type: Article

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