On the Potential of the Excluded Volume and Auto-Correlation as Neuromorphometric Descriptors

2005/01/15 by L. da F. Costa, M. S. Barbosa, V. Coupez
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.10.011

published as Physica A 348 (2005) 317-326 · 15 pages, 6 figures

arxiv created 2005/01/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

This work investigates at what degree two neuromorphometric measurements, namely the autocorrelation and the excluded volume of a neuronal cell can influence the characterization and classification of such a type of cells. While the autocorrelation function presents good potential for quantifying the dendrite-dendrite connectivity of cells in mosaic tilings, the excluded volume, i.e. the amount of the surround space which is geometrically not accessible to an axon or dendrite, provides a complementary characterization of the cell connectivity. The potential of such approaches is illustrated with respect to real neuronal cells.

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