A segmentation method for 3D visualization of neurons imaged with a confocal laser scanning microscope

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5746, Issue II, 2005, Pages 718-729

  Anderson, Jeffrey R ^a   Barrett, Steven F ^a   Wilcox, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Object segmentation; Reconstruction of serial section images

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION OF SERIAL SECTION IMAGES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 23844453116     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.594565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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