A feature set for cytometry on digitized microscopic images

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-36

  Rodenacker, Karsten ^a   Bengtsson, Ewert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomedical image analysis; Cytometry; Densitometry; Feature development; Feature extraction; Histometry; Microscope image analysis; Morphometry; Photometry; Shape; Structure; Texture

Indexed keywords

CYTOMETRY; DENSITOMETRY; EXTRACTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037272440     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/548678     Document Type: Review

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