A high-throughput framework to detect synapses in electron microscopy images

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Navlakha, Saket ^a   Suhan, Joseph ^b   Barth, Alison L ^b   Bar Joseph, Ziv ^a  

^a School of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84879949941     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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