Clustering of large cell populations: Method and application to the basal forebrain cholinergic system

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-55

  Nadasdy, Zoltan ^a   Varsanyi, Peter ^a   Zaborszky, Laszlo ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Cell density; Data mining

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATA MINING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78649494857     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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