A Fast Method for the Segmentation of Synaptic Junctions and Mitochondria in Serial Electron Microscopic Images of the Brain

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 235-250

  Márquez Neila, Pablo ^a   Baumela, Luis ^a   González Soriano, Juncal ^b   Rodríguez, Jose Rodrigo ^c   DeFelipe, Javier ^c   Merchán Pérez, Ángel ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic image segmentation; cerebral cortex; Mitochondria; Synapses; Three dimensional electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84954452200     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-015-9288-z     Document Type: Article

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