Tumor hypoxia and blood vessel detection: An image analysis technique for simultaneous tumor hypoxia grading and blood vessel detection in tissue sections

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 980, Issue , 2002, Pages 125-138

  Loukas, Constantinos G ^a,b,c   Wilson, George D ^a   Vojnovic, Borivoj ^a   Linney, Alf ^b  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Classification; Hypoxia; Image analysis; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036978122     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04893.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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