Wavelets as chromatin texture descriptors for the automated identification of neoplastic nuclei

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-35

  Van De Wouwer, G ^a   Weyn, B ^b   Scheunders, P ^a   Jacob, W ^b   Van Marck, E ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Department of Medicine   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Co occurrence matrix; Knn classifier; Parameter selection; Texture; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; BREAST TISSUES; CELLULAR DIAGNOSTICS; COOCCURRENCE MATRIXES (COM); DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS; K-NN CLASSIFIER; PARAMETER SELECTION; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS; WAVELET;

GRADING;

DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEULGEN STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0033970009     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2000.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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