Pipeline for acquisition of quantitative data on segmentation gene expression from confocal images

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Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 58-66

  Surkova, Svetlana ^a   Myasnikova, Ekaterina ^a   Janssens, Hilde ^b   Kozlov, Konstantin N ^a   Samsonova, Anastasia A ^c   Reinitz, John ^d   Samsonova, Maria ^a  

^a PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Background removal; Confocal microscopy; Gene expression; Image processing; Image segmentation; Spatial registration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 58149199098     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.6060     Document Type: Review

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