Automatic reconstruction of neural morphologies with multi-scale graph-based tracking

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue APRIL2012, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Choromanska, Anna ^a   Chang, Shih Fu ^a   Yuste, Rafael ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Dijkstra; Multiscaling; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL TRACKING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DENDRITIC SPINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863624662     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00025     Document Type: Article

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