A novel approach to neurite tracing in fluorescence microscopy images

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 491-495

  Meijering, Erik ^a   Jacob, Mathews ^b   Sarria, J C Floyd ^b   Unser, Michael ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Fluorescence microscopy; Image segmentation; Neurite tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NEURITE TRACING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 1542516518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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