It is an important and efficient tool in many applications of microscopy (such as petrography, materials science, and biosciences including histology, bone and neuroanatomy). Stereology is a method that utilizes random, systematic sampling to provide unbiased and quantitative data. It provides practical techniques for extracting quantitative information about a three-dimensional material from measurements made on two-dimensional planar sections of the material. It is an interdisciplinary field that is largely concerned with the three-dimensional interpretation of planar sections of materials or tissues. In practice, it was originally defined in modern science as 'the spatial interpretation of sections'.

Is this the first time you stumble on the word stereology?Р”Р‡rom its greek roots 'stereo'and'logos' the term means the 'science of studying solids'. ISSIA Board: AleР•РЋ Kladnik, Bruno Figliuzzi, Jitka Р”РЉoР”РЊkovР“РЋ, Eric Pirard, Augusto Coppi, Johan Debayle, Karl-Anton Dorph-Petersen, Aneta GР”вЂ¦dek-Moszczak, Dorothy E. Dvoralai Wulfsohn ( agricultural engineering, Geco Enterprises, Chile).Xiaoyan Song ( stereology in materials science, visualization simulation Beijing University of Technology, China).Ramya ( image processing, mathematical morphology and machine vision Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, India) Peterson ( image analysis, stereology and microscopy in biomedicine The Chicago Medical School, USA) Oorschot ( stereology in biomedicine and neuroscience University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) Aneta GР”вЂ¦dek-Moszczak ( image analysis and stereology in materials science and medicine Cracow University of Technology, Poland).Karl-Anton Dorph-Petersen ( stereology in biosciences Aarhus University, Denmark).Johan Debayle ( image processing and analysis, mathematical morphology, pattern recognition and stochastic geometry, MINES Saint-Etienne, France).Augusto Coppi ( stereology in biomedicine School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK).Eric Pirard ( particle shape analysis in geosciences University of LiР“РЃge, Belgium).Jitka Р”РЉoР”РЊkovР“РЋ ( economics Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic).Bruno Figliuzzi ( image processing, stochastic geometry and materials science Mines ParisTech, France).AleР•РЋ Kladnik ( image analysis and microscopy in plant biology University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).

Stereology and image analysis