Automated method for the segmentation and morphometry of nerve fibers in large-scale CARS images of spinal cord tissue

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4145-4161

  Bégin, Steve ^a,b   Dupont Therrien, Olivier ^a,b   Bélanger, Erik ^a,b   Daradich, Amy ^a,b   Laffray, Sophie ^a,b   De Koninck, Yves ^a   Côté, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED METHODS; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; FULLY AUTOMATED; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; NERVOUS TISSUES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTED IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84928011602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.004145     Document Type: Article

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