AxonDeepSeg: Automatic axon and myelin segmentation from microscopy data using convolutional neural networks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Zaimi, Aldo ^a   Wabartha, Maxime ^a,b   Herman, Victor ^a,b   Antonsanti, Pierre Louis ^a,c   Perone, Christian S ^a   Cohen Adad, Julien ^a,d  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; AXON; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; AXONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MYELIN SHEATH; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOFTWARE;

EID: 85043275350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22181-4     Document Type: Article

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