NEuronMOrphological analysis tool: Open-source software for quantitative morphometrics

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue JANUARY 2013, 2013, Pages

  Billeci, L ^a   Magliaro, C ^b   Pioggia, G ^a   Ahluwalia, A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 way PCA; Image processing; Morphometrics; Neurons; Software

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURON MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS TOOL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887295199     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2013.00002     Document Type: Article

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