Detection of blob objects in microscopic zebrafish images based on gradient vector diffusion

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 835-845

  Li, Gang ^a,b   Liu, Tianming ^b,c   Nie, Jingxin ^a,b   Guo, Lei ^a   Malicki, Jarema ^d   Mara, Andrew ^e   Holley, Scott A ^e   Xia, Weiming ^c,f   Wong, Stephen T C ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Blob object detection; Elastic deformable model; Gradient vector diffusion; Image analysis; Image based phenotyping; Retina; Somitogenesis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; GRADIENT VECTOR DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMITE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 35348992774     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20436     Document Type: Article

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