Improved Automatic Centerline Tracing for Dendritic and Axonal Structures

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 227-244

  Jiménez, David ^a   Labate, Demetrio ^b   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^c   Papadakis, Manos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated neuron tracing; Image processing; Neuron image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AXON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84929956985     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-014-9256-z     Document Type: Article

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