Computer Assisted Assembly of Connectomes from Electron Micrographs: Application to Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Meng ^a   Jarrell, Travis A ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Cook, Steven J ^a   Hall, David H ^a   Emmons, Scott W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONNECTOME; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84872457021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054050     Document Type: Article

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