Fully automatic and robust 3D registration of serial-section microscopic images

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Ching Wei ^a,b   Budiman Gosno, Eric ^a   Li, Yen Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 84944230104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15051     Document Type: Article

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