Value of computer-assisted quantitative nuclear grading in differentiation of normal urothelial cells from low and high grade transitional cell carcinoma

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-76

  Wojcik, Eva M ^a,b   Miller, M Craig ^a,c   O'Dowd, Gerard J ^a,c   Veltri, Robert W ^a  

^a UroCor Incorporated   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UroDiagnostics Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder neoplasms; Carcinoma, transitional cell; Image analysis, computer assisted; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UROTHELIUM;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0031930699     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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