Increasing sensitivity of Ca2+ spark detection in noisy images by application of a matched-filter object detection algorithm

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6016-6024

  Kong, Cherrie H T ^a   Soeller, Christian ^a   Cannell, Mark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 58749094296     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.135251     Document Type: Article

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