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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2015 Dec 17;35(4):1127–1137. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2509463

TABLE III.

GLOMERULUS COUNTS FOR SIX RAT KIDNEYS USING THE HDOG, ACID MACERATION, AND STEREOLOGY METHODS

Rat	Acid Maceration	Stereology	HDoG	Time (seconds)
CF1	27,504	34,504	29,484	268
CF2	31,190	35,421	34,460	294
CF3	28,944	24,156	27,051	242
CF4	31,075	-	35,296	243
CF5	33,321	-	31,196	237
CF6	31,478	-	35,248	242
Avg	30,585	31,360	32,122.5	255
Std	2,053	6,256	3131.6	20

γ =2, Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz CPU and 32 GB of memory. Only 3 CF rats were counted by stereology