COMPUTER VISION-BASED MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF NEURAL CELLS

This article reports on the application of computer vision techniques, implemented on an IBM PC-compatible machine, as a means of obtaining morphometric characterization of neural cells. The features considered include projection polar histograms, orientation polar histograms, an d the determination of the convex hull of dendritic (or axonal) arbori zations. As will be discussed in this work, the Hough transformation t echnique has proven to be of great help for the determination of all. the-above-mentioned parameters. Two actual application examples respec tive to the analysis of retinal ganglion cells are also presented and discussed. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.