From voxels to knowledge: A practical guide to the segmentation of complex electron microscopy 3D-data

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 90, 2014, Pages

  Tsai, Wen Ting ^a   Hassan, Ahmed ^a   Sarkar, Purbasha ^a   Correa, Joaquin ^a   Metlagel, Zoltan ^a   Jorgens, Danielle M ^a   Auer, Manfred ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D electron microscopy; Bioengineering; Feature extraction; Image analysis; Issue 90; Manual tracing; Reconstruction; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMARY GLAND; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 84906351137     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51673     Document Type: Article

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