A semi-automatic approach for segmentation of three-dimensional microscopic image stacks of cardiac tissue

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7945 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 300-307

  Seidel, Thomas ^a   Draebing, Thomas ^a   Seemann, Gunnar ^b   Sachse, Frank B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithm; cardiac tissue; confocal microscopy; segmentation; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC TISSUES; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84879835400     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38899-6_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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