Current automated 3D cell detection methods are not a suitable replacement for manual stereologic cell counting

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Schmitz, Christoph ^a   Eastwood, Brian S ^b   Tappan, Susan J ^b,c   Glaser, Jack R ^b,c   Peterson, Daniel A ^d   Hof, Patrick R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MBF Bioscience   (United States)

^c MBF Labs   (United States)

^d ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated cell segmentation; Disector; FARSIGHT; Fractionator; ImageJ; Stem cells; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNTING; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOLOGIC CELL COUNTING; STEREOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL CELL COUNTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL CELL COUNTING;

EID: 84900525857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00027     Document Type: Article

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