Assessing liver tissue fibrosis with an automatic computer morphometry system

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 66-73

  Sun, Yung Nien ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Horng, Ming Huwi ^a,e,g  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f IEEE   (China)

^g Chinese Assoc Image Proc P   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC COMPUTER MORPHOMETRY (ACM) SYSTEM; KNODELL'S SCORE; LIVER TISSUE FIBROSIS; SAMPLE TRAINING SUBSYSTEM; SECTION POSITIONING SUBSYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOWCHARTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; MORPHOMETRICS;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MICROCOMPUTERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031149335     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.585520     Document Type: Article

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