Nonlinear deterministic analysis of tissue texture: A stereological study on mastopathic and mammary cancer tissue using chaos theory

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-66

  Mattfeldt, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chaos theory; Correlation dimension; Deterministic chaos; Fractals; Image analysis; Microscopy; Nonlinear systems; Pathology; Stereology; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BREAST CANCER; CORRELATION DIMENSIONS; DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS; DETERMINISTIC CHAOS; DETERMINISTICS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; MAMMARY CANCER; STEREOLOGY; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; TISSUE TEXTURES;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 0031029949     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1997.1440701.x     Document Type: Article

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