A specialized plug-in software module for computer-aided quantitative measurement of medical images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 887-892

  Wang, Q ^a   Zeng, Y J ^a   Huo, P ^b   Hu, J L ^c   Zhang, J H ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Image processing; Medical images; Quantitative measurement

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242662559     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(03)00114-0     Document Type: Article

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