Automatic multiparameter fluorescence imaging for determining lymphocyte phenotype and activation status in melanoma tissue sections

Cytometry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-81

  Dow, Alasdair I ^a,d   Shafer, Steven A ^b   Kirkwood, John M ^c   Mascari, Ruth A ^c   Waggoner, Alan S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Immunophenotyping; Multiparameter analysis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, CD; AUTOMATION; BIOPSY; BISBENZIMIDE; COLOR; FLUORESCENT DYES; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 0029801002     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19960901)25:1<71::AID-CYTO8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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