Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Feature extraction
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-04
2006-07-04
Mehta, Bhavesh M. (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Feature extraction
C382S128000
Reexamination Certificate
active
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ABSTRACT:
A method for rapid, fully automatic, two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) tracing of line-structure images, such as images of neurons produced by fluorescence confocal microscopy. A method of recursively following the line-structure topology, guided by the correlation response of a set of 4×N2directional kernels in the 3-D case, and a set of 2×N directional kernels in the 2-D case, is presented. These kernels are derived based on a generalized cylinder model of the line-structures. The automatic tracing method includes a protocol for determining the ends of line-structures.
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Al-Kofahi Khalid
Roysam Badrinath
Turner James N.
Mehta Bhavesh M.
RatnerPrestia
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Strege John
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