Image processing methods to elucidate spatial characteristics of retinal microglia after optic nerve transection

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Yudong ^a   Peng, Bo ^b,e   Wang, Shuihua ^a   Liang, Yu Xiang ^c   Yang, Jiquan ^a   So, Kwok Fai ^c,d,e   Yuan, Ti Fei ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROGLIA; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE; PIPELINE; RETINA; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL TRACKING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84959018146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21816     Document Type: Article

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