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We have used biologically inspired receptive fields as a basis for a ridge detection algorithm to identify cell membranes, synaptic contacts and mitochondria. Detected line segments are used to improve alignment between consecutive images and we have joined small segments of membrane into cell surfaces using a dynamic programming algorithm similar to the Needleman\u2013Wunsch and Smith\u2013Waterman DNA sequence alignment procedures. A shortest path-based approach has been used to close edges and achieve image segmentation. Partial reconstructions were automatically generated and used as a basis for semi-automatic reconstruction of neural tissue. The accuracy of partial reconstructions was evaluated and 96% of membrane could be identified at the cost of 13% false positive detections.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: An open-source reference implementation is available in the Supplementary information.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0seymour.kb@ed.ac.uk; douglas.armstrong@ed.ac.uk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr378","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,9]],"date-time":"2011-07-09T00:14:53Z","timestamp":1310170493000},"page":"2216-2223","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Biologically inspired EM image alignment and neural reconstruction"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Seymour","family":"Knowles-Barley","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and 2Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nancy J.","family":"Butcher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and 2Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ian A.","family":"Meinertzhagen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and 2Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"J. 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