# About NeuTu

NeuTu is a software package for neuronal reconstruction and visualization from machine segmentation of serial electron microscopic images.  It allows the user to observe segmentation and to split or merge if necessary. NeuTu users can also use the program for annotation and has many other features.

Source code: <https://github.com/janelia-flyem/NeuTu>

Publication to cite: [NeuTu: Software for Collaborative, Large-Scale, Segmentation-Based Connectome Reconstruction](https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2018.00101), Ting Zhao\*, Donald J. Olbris, Yang Yu and Stephen M. Plaza (2018)

![Overall GUI of NeuTu on Mac OS X with 2D and 3D windows side by side to enable efficient proofreading](/files/-LzCs805zSwQHBVLe1-9)


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