Parameter-free binarization and skeletonization of fiber networks from confocal image stacks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Krauss, Patrick ^a   Metzner, Claus ^a   Lange, Janina ^a   Lang, Nadine ^a   Fabry, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIBER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPOLYMERS; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GELS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 84860992587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036575     Document Type: Article

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