Applications of Image Analysis to Anatomic Pathology: Realities and Promises

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 950-959

  Gil, Joan ^a   Wu, Hai Shan ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic classification algorithms; Fractal analysis; Image analysis; Immunohistochemistry; Morphometry; Nuclear quantitation; Pathology; Ploidy; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR SIZE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY;

EID: 0347357902     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CNV-120025097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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