# Before installing NOVAS3D

## Acknowledging this work
If you wish to include results generated by NOVAS3D in a publication, please include a line such as the following:

* Cerebrovascular segentation and morphological analysis was performing using the NOVAS3D algorithm ([novas3d.readthedocs.io](novas3d.readthedocs.io)) based on a convolutional neural network, and graph analysis.

## Reference

If you use NOVAS3D in your work please cite our paper:

Matthew Rozak James Mester Ahmadreza Attarpour Adrienne Dorr Shruti Patel Margaret Koletar Mary Hill JoAnne McLaurin Maged Goubran Bojana Stefanovic 2024 "A Deep Learning Pipeline for Mapping in situ Network-level Neurovascular Coupling in Multi-photon Fluorescence Microscopy" eLife13:RP95525 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95525.2


## License

NOVAS3D is licensed under the terms of the *GNU General Public License v3.0*.

NOVAS3D is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You should have received a copy of GNU General Public License v3.0 along with HippMapp3r. 

The code is released for academic research use only. For commercial use, please contact [matthew.rozak@mail.utoronto.ca](mailto:matthew.rozak@maul.utoronto.ca).