Neuromantic - from semi-manual to semi-automatic reconstruction of neuron morphology

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages

  Myatt, Darren R ^a   Hadlington, Tye ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^b   Nasuto, Slawomir J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Live Wire; Morphology; Neuromantic; Neuronal reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; DATA PROCESSING; DIJKSTRA ROUTING ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; SEMI AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; SEMI MANUAL RECONSTRUCTION; TRACING ALGORITHM; VELOCITY;

EID: 84857555811     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00004     Document Type: Article

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