A multiscale parallel computing architecture for automated segmentation of the brain connectome

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-38

  Jaume, Sylvain ^a   Knobe, Kathleen ^b   R newton, Ryan ^b   Schlimbach, Frank ^b   Blower, Melanie ^b   Reid, R Clay ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain anatomy; circuit connectome; computational architecture; data intensive computing; electron microscopy; image segmentation; multiscale analysis; parallel computing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ANATOMY; CIRCUIT CONNECTOME; COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAMMALS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CELL NUCLEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; SCALE UP;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84555202605     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2168396     Document Type: Article

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