The big data challenges of connectomics

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1448-1454

  Lichtman, Jeff W ^a   Pfister, Hanspeter ^a,b   Shavit, Nir ^c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONNECTOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOMICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BRAIN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84908507073     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3837     Document Type: Review

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