Fully automated microvessel counting and hot spot selection by image processing of whole tumour sections in invasive breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 184-192

  Beliën, Jeroen A M ^a   Somi, Semir ^a   De Jong, Johannes S ^a   Van Diest, Paul J ^a   Baak, Jan P A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Automation; Breast cancer; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVASCULATURE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0033020197     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.52.3.184     Document Type: Article

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