Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 179-184 , April 2010

Automatic identification and morphometry of optic nerve fibers in electron microscopy images

  • Ximei Zhao

      Affiliations

    • College of Information Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
    • Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • ,
  • Zhenkuan Pan

      Affiliations

    • College of Information Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
    • ,
  • Jinyan Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • ,
  • Guomin Zhou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +86 10 67391685.
    • ,
  • Yanjun Zeng

      Affiliations

    • Biomechanical and Medical Information Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +86 10 67391685.

Received 5 May 2009 ,Revised 18 July 2009 ,Accepted 31 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.08.009

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 179-184 , April 2010

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