Quantitative assessment of gastric atrophy using the syntactic structure analysis

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 895-900

  Zaitoun, A M ^a   Al Mardini, H ^b   Record, C O ^b  

^a MAYDAY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atrophy; Gastritis; Minimum spanning tree; Sydney system; Tissue architecture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATROPHY; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032416270     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.51.12.895     Document Type: Article

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