Neuron tracing in perspective

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 693-704

  Meijering, Erik ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioimage informatics; Databases; Digital reconstruction; Image segmentation; Neuroinformatics; Neuron tracing; Neuroscience; Pattern recognition; Quantitative image analysis; Software Tools

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; REVIEW; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURONS; SOFTWARE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 77954289614     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20895     Document Type: Review

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