• The above figure shows a list of morphological functions.
  • Select and 'Add' desired morphological function from the list.
  • You can also select a combination of more than one function which is morphologically meaningful. Selection of functions made in this panel and the selection of funtions made in the Function panel should together correspond to make a meaningful analysis. For e.g. you can restrict your study only to the terminal branches using the Specificity panel and find the Diameter of the compartments comprising of these terminal branches using the Function panel.
• The Table window on the right has 4 columns Connector, Function_name, Operator and Value. Initially when you select a function it is added to this window showing the name of the function the second column.
• The Connector column is 'None' for the first row. But if you plan to add some more specificity conditions then this column allows you to choose between 'And' and 'Or'. A drop down list box is displayed to select between the two boolean operators 'And' and 'Or' as shown in Fig 3.
• Similarly the Operator column allows the user to select b/w '<', '>' and '='.
• The Value column is a text field which allows the user to enter any decimal/integer value.
• It is necessary that if you are using specificity, then you have to make selections for all the four columns in a particular row.
• The 'Remove' button allows you to delete selected functions from the text area.

The following example illustrates the use of Specificity Panel. Below, 3 schematized figues with certain specificity are considered:


To obtain panel A, the Branch_Order needs to be set equals to 2:

Fig 2.



Panel B selects only terminal compartments:
they correspond to compartments that are nodes and lead to only one terminal branch.

Fig 3.



Panel C selects a particular type of dendrite (i.e., type=3 selects basal dendrites):

Fig 4.

The Output will look like this: