Automatic dendritic spine analysis in two-photon laser scanning microscopy images

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 818-826

  Bai, Wenjia ^a   Zhou, Xiaobo ^b,c   Ji, Liang ^a   Cheng, Jie ^b   Wong, Stephen T C ^b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Fluorescence microscopy; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Nervous system

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTONS; RATS;

EID: 35348995590     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20431     Document Type: Article

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