Fast extraction of neuron morphologies from large-scale SBFSEM image stacks

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-545

  Lang, Stefan ^a,c   Drouvelis, Panos ^a   Tafaj, Enkelejda ^a   Bastian, Peter ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

GPGPU computing; Image processing; Reconstruction of neurons; SBFSEM; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMALS; NEURONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DENDRITIC BRANCHES; DENDRITIC SPINE; GPGPU COMPUTING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE STACKS; IMAGES PROCESSING; NEURON MORPHOLOGIES; RECONSTRUCTION OF NEURON; SEGMENTATION; SERIAL BLOCK-FACE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 83055184545     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-011-0316-1     Document Type: Article

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