NeuroGPS: Automated localization of neurons for brain circuits using L1 minimization model

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Quan, Tingwei ^a,b,c   Zheng, Ting ^a,b   Yang, Zhongqing ^a,b   Ding, Wenxiang ^a,b   Li, Shiwei ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a,b   Zhou, Hang ^a,b   Luo, Qingming ^a,b   Gong, Hui ^a,b   Zeng, Shaoqun ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84876577065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01414     Document Type: Article

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