The filament editor: An interactive software environment for visualization, proof-editing and analysis of 3D neuron morphology

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 325-339

  Dercksen, Vincent J ^a   Hege, Hans Christian ^a   Oberlaender, Marcel ^b,c,d  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment of brain sections; Automated neuron tracing; Axon; Barrel cortex; Dendrite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURONS; RATS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84899910857     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9213-2     Document Type: Article

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