Axon tracking in serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-188

  Jurrus, Elizabeth ^a   Hardy, Melissa ^b   Tasdizen, Tolga ^a   Fletcher, P Thomas ^a   Koshevoy, Pavel ^a   Chien, Chi Bin ^b   Denk, Winfried ^c   Whitaker, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image processing; Kalman filtering; Neurobiology; Scanning electron microscopy; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURONS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FLOWS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CHALLENGING PROBLEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURONAL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL FLOW COMPUTATIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPEED-UP; TRACKING; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AXONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 57049129820     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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