Population-scale three-dimensional reconstruction and quantitative profiling of microglia arbors
Author(s) -
Murad Megjhani,
Nicolas Rey-Villamizar,
Amine Merouane,
Yanbin Lu,
Amit Mukherjee,
Kristen Trett,
Peter Chong,
Carolyn A. Harris,
William Shain,
Badrinath Roysam
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv109
Subject(s) - microglia , computer science , scalability , software , voxel , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , population , cluster analysis , neuroscience , computer vision , computational biology , biology , database , medicine , environmental health , immunology , inflammation , programming language
The arbor morphologies of brain microglia are important indicators of cell activation. This article fills the need for accurate, robust, adaptive and scalable methods for reconstructing 3-D microglial arbors and quantitatively mapping microglia activation states over extended brain tissue regions.
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