Computational methods and challenges for large-scale circuit mapping

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 162-169

  Helmstaedter, Moritz ^a   Mitra, Partha P ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857688652     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.11.010     Document Type: Review

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