An objective method to measure cell survival by computer-assisted image processing of numeric images of Petri dishes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1551-1563

  Biston, Marie Claude ^a   Corde, Stéphanie ^a   Camus, Emmanuel ^b   Marti Battle, Ramon ^b   Estève, François ^a   Balosso, Jacques ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ZIRST 53   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CLONING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONOGENESIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; DENSITOMETRY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; X-RAYS;

EID: 0038510211     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/11/305     Document Type: Article

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