Computer-Assisted rescreening of clinically important false negative cervical smears using the papnet testing system

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 120-126

  Rosenthal, Dorothy L ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Acosta, Deborah ^a,b,d,g   Peters, Ruth K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^g Tri City Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical smears; Computer Assisted; Image analysis; Laboratory diagnosis; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0030071468     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333592     Document Type: Article

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