The value of nuclear DNA and texture analysis by digital image processing in the diagnosis of lipomatous and leiomyomatous tumours

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-58

  Remmelink, Myriam ^a   Salmon, Isabelle ^a   Goldschmidt, Denis ^a   Decaestecker, Christine ^a   Petein, Michel ^b   Pasteels, Jean Lambert ^a   Kiss, Robert ^a,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chromatin texture; Feulgen staining; Image cytometry; Linear discriminant analysis; Principal components analysis; Soft tissue tumours

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; COLORING AGENTS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LINEAR MODELS; LIPOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLOIDIES; ROSANILINE DYES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030071324     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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