On the potential of the excluded volume and autocorrelation as neuromorphometric descriptors

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 348, Issue , 2005, Pages 317-326

  Costa, L Da F ^a   Barbosa, M S ^a   Coupez, V ^b  

^a 13560 970 so Carlos SP Brazil   (Brazil)

^b Polytech Inst of Orléans   (France)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; MORPHOMETRY; NEUROMORPHOMETRIC; NEURONAL CELLS;

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 11444257243     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.10.011     Document Type: Article

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