Improving morphology-based malignancy grading schemes in astrocytic tumors by means of computer-assisted techniques

Brain Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-38

  Decaestecker, Christine ^a   Camby, Isabelle ^a   Nagy, Nathalie ^b   Brotchi, Jacques ^b   Kiss, Robert ^a   Salmon, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; DNA CONTENT; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; PLOIDY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0031962946     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1998.tb00131.x     Document Type: Article

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