Learning vector quantizer in the investigation of thyroid lesions

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-208

  Karakitsos, Petros ^a   Cochand Priollet, Beatrix ^a   Pouliakis, Abraham ^a   Guillausseau, Pierre Jean ^a   Ioakim Liossi, Anna ^a  

^a Iros Konstantopoulou 13 ^*

Author keywords

Learning vector quantizer; Morphometry; Neural networks (computer); Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GOITER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GOITER; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KARYOMETRY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0032976589     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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