Automated pipeline for anatomical phenotyping of mouse embryos using micro-CT

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2533-2541

  Wong, Michael D ^a   Maezawa, Yoshiro ^b   Lerch, Jason P ^a,c   Mark Henkelman, R ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Embryo; Imaging; Micro CT; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLADDER CAPACITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY SIZE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LETHALITY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATB2 GENE; STOMACH VOLUME; STOMACH WALL; TCF21 GENE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WILD TYPE;

3D; EMBRYO; IMAGING; MICRO-CT; PHENOTYPING;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84902195154     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.107722     Document Type: Article

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