Automated segmentation of electron tomograms for a quantitative description of actin filament networks

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-144

  Rigort, Alexander ^a   Günther, David ^a,b   Hegerl, Reiner ^a   Baum, Daniel ^b   Weber, Britta ^b   Prohaska, Steffen ^b   Medalia, Ohad ^c,d   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a   Hege, Hans Christian ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Actin branching; Cryo electron tomography; Feature extraction; Image processing; Local shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGIDITY;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS;

EID: 84855838451     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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