Neurite tracing in fluorescence microscopy images using ridge filtering and graph searching: Principles and validation

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1219-1222

  Meijering, E ^a   Jacob, M ^b   Sarria, J C F ^b   Steiner, P ^b   Hirling, H ^b   Unser, M ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GRAPH THEORY; NEUROLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGES; GRAPH-SEARCHING ALGORITHMS; NEUROBIOLOGISTS; USER INTERACTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17144406070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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