3D segmentations of neuronal nuclei from confocal microscope image stacks

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Latorre, Antonio ^a   Alonso Nanclares, Lidia ^a,b   Muelas, Santiago ^c   Peña, José María ^c   Defelipe, Javier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Automatic segmentation; Cerebral cortex; Image processing; Neuron

Indexed keywords

2D SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; 3D RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLUMP SPLITTING ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ERROR; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATERSHED ALGORITHM;

EID: 84891532176     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2013.00049     Document Type: Article

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