Automated synaptic connectivity inference for volume electron microscopy

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 435-442

  Dorkenwald, Sven ^a,b   Schubert, Philipp J ^a,b   Killinger, Marius F ^a,b   Urban, Gregor ^b   Mikula, Shawn ^a   Svara, Fabian ^a   Kornfeld, Joergen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXON; BASAL GANGLION; CONNECTOME; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIRING RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SKELETON; SOFTWARE; SONGBIRD; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURITES; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 85014088241     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4206     Document Type: Article

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