Automated breast tumor diagnosis and grading based on wavelet chromatin texture description

Cytometry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-40

  Weyn, Barbara ^a   Van De Wouwer, Gert ^a   Van Daele, André ^a   Scheunders, Paul ^a   Van Dyck, Dirk ^a   Van Marck, Eric ^a   Jacob, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automation; Breast cancer; Computer; Image analysis; Quantitative diagnostic pathology; Texture analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CHROMATIN; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032171598     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19980901)33:1<32::AID-CYTO4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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