JUST (Java User Segmentation Tool) for semi-automatic segmentation of tomographic maps

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-297

  Salvi, Eleonora ^a   Cantele, Francesca ^a   Zampighi, Lorenzo ^b   Fain, Nick ^b   Pigino, Gaia ^d   Zampighi, Guido ^b,c   Lanzavecchia, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron tomography; Feature extraction; Image processing; Synapsis; Volume segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAVA USER SEGMENTATION TOOL; NONHUMAN; ORGANELLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 40649127714     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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