Automatic detection of clustered, fluorescent‐stained nuclei by digital image‐based cytometry

Cytometry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-12

  Lockett, Stephen J ^a   Herman, Brian ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; image cytometry; nuclei; tissue sections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; AUTOMATION; BISBENZIMIDE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0028134135     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: 10970320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.990170102     Document Type: Article

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