A comparative study of three variations of the learning vector quantizer in the discrimination of benign from malignant gastric cells

Cytopathology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 114-125

  Karakitsos, P ^a,b   Ioakim Liossi, A ^a   Pouliakis, A ^a   Botsoli Stergiou, E M ^a   Tzivras, M ^a   Archimandritis, A ^a   Kyrkou, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b University of Athens ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Gastric ulcer; Gastritis; Learning vector quantizer; Morphometry; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH ULCER;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STAINING AND LABELING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 0031942184     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2303.1998.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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