9 | | Left: Coronal slice of a rat brain around 3 mm behind Bregma stained for Cytochrome Oxidase. Histological verification of the electrodes' location after chronic local field potentials (LFP) recording from the thalamic somatosensory nuclei. |
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11 | | Middle: Initial stage of manual preparation of a ''countour slide''. Main structures outlines drawn over the histology slice (line thickness increased for better visibility) and structure labels placed over well recognized regions. |
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13 | | Right: Histological slice visible through translucent final CAF slide. |
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16 | | [[Image(006__final_comparison.png)]] FIGURE 1 |
| 9 | '''FIGURE 1.''' '''Left''': Coronal slice of a rat brain around 3 mm behind Bregma stained for Cytochrome Oxidase. Histological verification of the electrodes' location after chronic local field potentials (LFP) recording from the thalamic somatosensory nuclei. '''Middle''': Initial stage of manual preparation of a ''countour slide''. Main structures outlines drawn over the histology slice (line thickness increased for better visibility) and structure labels placed over well recognized regions. '''Right''': Histological slice visible through translucent final CAF slide. |
| 10 | [[Image(006__final_comparison.png)]] |
60 | | Left: Red blocks mark regions where irregular neighboring lines touch each other creating small closed areas. |
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62 | | Middle: Small areas were detected by the parser, traced and marked as Unlabelled. |
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64 | | Right: Adjusting the threshold number of pixels that should be traces by parser excluded incorrectly recognized tiny structures. |
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67 | | [[Image(001__unlabelled_annotated.gif)]]FIGURE 2 |
| 54 | '''FIGURE 2.''' '''Left''': Red blocks mark regions where irregular neighboring lines touch each other creating small closed areas. '''Middle''': Small areas were detected by the parser, traced and marked as Unlabelled. '''Right''': Adjusting the threshold number of pixels that should be traces by parser excluded incorrectly recognized tiny structures. |
| 55 | [[Image(001__unlabelled_annotated.gif)]] |
134 | | Left: |
135 | | Blinking lines and appropriate labels were added to the ''contour slide'' 1) to show primary somatosensory representation of big facial whiskers ("barrel field", S1BF) in the cerebral cortex (Cx); 2) to separate ventral posteromedial (VPM) and ventral posterolateral (VPL) nuclei from ventrobasal complex (VB). |
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137 | | Unrecognized thalamic nuclei, which were not labeled with their specific names, are labeled with "Th" so they all will be included in the final reconstruction of the thalamus. |
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139 | | Right: Updated CAF slide. |
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141 | | [[Image(0041_new_edges_animated.gif)]]FIGURE 5 |
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| 115 | '''FIGURE 5.''' '''Left''': Blinking lines and appropriate labels were added to the ''contour slide'' 1) to show primary somatosensory representation of big facial whiskers ("barrel field", S1BF) in the cerebral cortex (Cx); 2) to separate ventral posteromedial (VPM) and ventral posterolateral (VPL) nuclei from ventrobasal complex (VB). Unrecognized thalamic nuclei, which were not labeled with their specific names, are labeled with "Th" so they all will be included in the final reconstruction of the thalamus. '''Right''': Updated CAF slide. |
| 116 | [[Image(0041_new_edges_animated.gif)]] |