Breast carcinoma: Correlations between visual diagnostic criteria for histologic grading and features of image analysis

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 481-493

  Tuczek, Heinz Volker ^a,e   Fritz, Peter ^b   Schwarzmann, Peter ^c   Wu, Xiangchen ^d   Mähner, Gunter ^d  

^a Marienhospital ^*  (Germany)

^b ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d Institute for Physical Electronics   (Germany)

^e MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast neoplasms; computer assisted; histology; image analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030460002     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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