A morphological image processing method for locating myosin filaments in muscle electron micrographs

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1073-1080

  Bodvarsson B ^a   Klim, S ^a   Morkebjerg M ^a   Mortensen, S ^a   Yoon, C H ^a   Chen, J ^a   Maclaren, J R ^a   Luther, P K ^b   Squire, J M ^c   Bones, P J ^a   Millane, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disorder; Electron micrograph; Image analysis; Morphology; Muscle; Myosin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE;

DISORDERS; ELECTRON MICROGRAPH; MYOSIN;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 44549085599     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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