Kernel Density Estimation

3-D density kernel estimation (DKE-3-D) method, utilises an ensemble of random decision trees for counting objects in 3D images. DKE-3-D avoids the problem of discrete object identification and segmentation, common to many existing 3-D counting techniques, and outperforms other methods when quantification of densely packed and heterogeneous objects is desired. 

We propose to use a kernel density estimation (KDE) based approach for classification. This non-parametric approach intrinsically provides the likelihood of membership for each class in a principled manner. The implementation was used in Ghani2016. Any papers using this code should cite Ghani2016 accordingly. The software has been tested under Matlab R2013b.

Sample Data: Annotated two-photon images of dendritic spines