Automatic mosaicking and volume assembly for high-throughput serial-section transmission electron microscopy

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 132-144

  Tasdizen, Tolga ^a   Koshevoy, Pavel ^b   Grimm, Bradley C ^a   Anderson, James R ^c   Jones, Bryan W ^c   Watt, Carl B ^c   Whitaker, Ross T ^a,d   Marc, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Sorenson Media   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectome; Electron microscopy; Image registration; Serial section

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957666947     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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