Advances in the automated detection of metaphase chromosomes labeled with fluorescence dyes

Cytometry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-18

  Mascio, Laura N ^a   Yuen, Brian K ^a   Kegelmeyer Jr , W Philip ^b   Matsumoto, Kyomu ^a,c   Briner, Jane ^a   Wyrobek, Andrew J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated metaphase finding; Binary decision tree classifier; Biodosimetry; Box classifier; Feature extraction; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Translocations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; METAPHASE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METAPHASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032171423     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19980901)33:1<10::AID-CYTO2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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