A software framework for the analysis of complex microscopy image data

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1075-1087

  Chao, Jerry ^a,b   Ward, E Sally ^b   Ober, Raimund J ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; image viewer; microscopy; multidimensional data; software framework

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; COMPLEX IMAGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT; DISPARATE ANALYSIS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IMAGE VIEWER; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; STORAGE MEDIUM; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954579451     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2049024     Document Type: Article

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