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In neuron-biology, 3D neuron dendrite reconstruction followed by spine identification is indispensable for the study of neuronal functions and biophysical properties. In this paper, we propose an automatic dendrite reconstruction method to with a surface representation of the neuron on the basis of a novel level set approach. Our novel level set approach can effectively tackle the problem of segmentation under blurring and intensity in-homogeneity. Then spines are detected based on dendrite medial axis and a label-based thinning strategy is proposed to accurately extract the dendrite skeleton for spine identification. Experimental results reveal that our method works well.
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Zhou, W., Li, H., Zhou, X. (2008). 3D Dendrite Reconstruction and Spine Identification. In: Metaxas, D., Axel, L., Fichtinger, G., Székely, G. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2008. MICCAI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_3
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