Scalable and interactive segmentation and visualization of neural processes in em datasets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1505-1514

  Jeong, Won Ki ^a   Beyer, Johanna ^b   Hadwiger, Markus ^b   Vazquez, Amelio ^a   Pfister, Hanspeter ^a   Whitaker, Ross T ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Visualization Research Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

connectome; graphics hardware; implicit surface rendering; neuroscience; Segmentation; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

CONNECTOME; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; IMPLICIT SURFACES; NEUROSCIENCE; SEGMENTATION;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE NET; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70350630741     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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