Groping for quantitative digital 3-D image analysis: An approach to quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization in thick tissue sections of prostate carcinoma

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-29

  Rodenacker, Karsten ^a   Aubele, Michaela ^a   Hutzler, Peter ^a   Umesh Adiga, P S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

3 D image analysis; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Graphical user interface; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030768431     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1997/790963     Document Type: Article

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