Automated quantification of keratocyte density by using confocal microscopy in vivo

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 320-326

  Patel, Sanjay V ^a   McLaren, Jay W ^a   Camp, Jon J ^a   Nelson, Leif R ^a   Bourne, William M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEREOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032944897     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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