A workflow for the automatic segmentation of organelles in electron microscopy image stacks

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue November, 2014, Pages

  Perez, Alex J ^a,b   Seyedhosseini, Mojtaba ^c   Deerinck, Thomas J ^a   Bushong, Eric A ^a   Panda, Satchidananda ^d   Tasdizen, Tolga ^c   Ellisman, Mark H ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D electron microscopy; Automatic segmentation; Electron microscopy; Image processing; Neuroinformatics; Organelle morphology; Serial block face scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL ORGANELLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84927553396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00126     Document Type: Article

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