Automatic quantification of liver fibrosis: Design and validation of a new image analysis method: Comparison with semi-quantitative indexes of fibrosis

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 453-464

  Masseroli, Marco ^a,b   Caballero, Trinidad ^a   O'Valle, Francisco ^a   Del Moral, Raimundo M G ^a   Pérez Milena, Alejandro ^a   Del Moral, Raimundo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Marco Masseroli   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic quantification; Image processing; Liver fibrosis; Portal periportal morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER SINUSOID; MORPHOMETRICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VENULE;

EID: 0034011851     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(00)80397-9     Document Type: Article

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