Digital tissue and what it may reveal about the brain

Abstract

Imaging as a means of scientific data storage has evolved rapidly over the past century from hand drawings, to photography, to digital images. Only recently can sufficiently large datasets be acquired, stored, and processed such that tissue digitization can actually reveal more than direct observation of tissue. One field where this transformation is occurring is connectomics: the mapping of neural connections in large volumes of digitized brain tissue.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2017
Accession Number
AD1066768

Entities

People

  • Jeff W. Lichtman
  • Josh L. Morgan

Organizations

  • University of Washington School of Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Big Data
  • Brain
  • Cells
  • Cellular Structures
  • Data Sets
  • Digital Images
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Image Processing
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Nervous System
  • Neurons
  • Neurosciences
  • Photography
  • Synapses
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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