Graph-based Active Learning of Agglomeration (GALA): A python library to segment 2D and 3D neuroimages

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Nunez Iglesias, Juan ^a,d   Kennedy, Ryan ^a,b   Plaza, Stephen M ^a   Chakraborty, Anirban ^c   Katz, William T ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Life Sciences Computation Centre Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectomics; Electron microscopy; Image segmentation; Machine learning; Python

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTROPY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HISTOGRAM; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MACHINE LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84897944856     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00034     Document Type: Article

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