Electron Microscopy Visualisation

Serial electron microscopy (EM) has the ability to improve three-dimensional imaging dramatically by providing nanometer-scale resolution. Serial EM data sets of brain tissue can potentially be used to reconstruct the complex structure of biological neural networks. These data sets consist of gigabytes of volumetric data densely packed with anatomical information. This makes three-dimensional EM data sets difficult to visualize.These are new methods for visualizing EM data sets using a novel transfer function based on the local variance of volumetric features.