New methods for the computer-assisted 3-D reconstruction of neurons from confocal image stacks

NeuroImage

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1283-1298

  Schmitt, Stephan ^a   Evers, Jan Felix ^b   Duch, Carsten ^b   Scholz, Michael ^a   Obermayer, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Generalized cylinders; Geodesic; Laser scanning confocal microscopy; Morphology; Neuron reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTROCYTE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PSYCHODIDAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; DENDRITES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNEURONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PSYCHODIDAE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 7744235523     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.047     Document Type: Article

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