Risk biomarker assessment for breast cancer progression: Replication precision of nuclear morphometry

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-138

  Poulin, N ^a,b,d   Frost, A ^c   Carraro, A ^a   Mommers, E ^b   Guillaud, M ^a   Van Diest, P J ^b   Grizzle, W ^c   Beenken, S ^c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Image cytometry; Reproducibility; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; FEULGEN STAINING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MITOSIS RATE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MORPHOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE NUCLEAR GRADE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0037944266     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/262918     Document Type: Article

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