NeuroLines: A subway map metaphor for visualizing nanoscale neuronal connectivity

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2369-2378

  Al Awami, Ali K ^a   Beyer, Johanna ^b   Strobelt, Hendrik ^b   Kasthuri, Narayanan ^c   Lichtman, Jeff W ^c   Pfister, Hanspeter ^b   Hadwiger, Markus ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectomics; Data abstraction; Focus+Context; Multi Trees; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

CONNECTOMICS; DATA ABSTRACTION; FOCUS + CONTEXT; MULTI-TREES; NEUROSCIENCE;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONNECTOME; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAILWAY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RAILROADS;

EID: 84909579145     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346312     Document Type: Article

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