Figure 7

DTE method applied to unseen MIPs. Rows (a)-(c) feature three dendritic tree samples, illustrating raw images (first column), our final segmentations (second column), our skeletonized trees (third column) and traces provided by the freely available Vaa3D software [29] (last column). (a) through (c) illustrate increasing inaccuracies resulting from the skeletonization step, leading to artificial branches and loops. Note that prior to the skeletonization process, somas are manually removed to prevent additional artificial loops; the soma is automatically re-integrated after skeletonization.