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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2002
Khalid Al-kofahi, Rochester, NY (US);
Badrinath Roysam, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James N. Turner, Delmar, NY (US);
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Rochester, NY (US);
Badrinath Roysam, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James N. Turner, Delmar, NY (US);
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
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×Ndirectional 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.