Automated detection and segmentation of synaptic contacts in nearly isotropic serial electron microscopy images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Kreshuk, Anna ^a   Straehle, Christoph N ^a   Sommer, Christoph ^a   Koethe, Ullrich ^a   Cantoni, Marco ^b   Knott, Graham ^b   Hamprecht, Fred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RATS; SOFTWARE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 80054845687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024899     Document Type: Article

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