Fully automated segmentation and characterization of the dendritic trees of retinal horizontal neurons

Proceedings of the 2010 Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference, BSEC 2010: Biomedical Research and Analysis in Neuroscience, BRAiN

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kerekes, Ryan A ^a   Gleason, Shaun S ^a   Martins, Rodrigo A P ^b   Dyer, Michael ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CONFOCAL IMAGE; DETECTION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL THRESHOLD; LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGERY; NEURITES; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SKELETONIZATION; WIDE-FIELD;

NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 77955643810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BSEC.2010.5510843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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