Morphological quantification of aortic calcification from low magnification images

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-89

  Angulo, Jesús ^a   Nguyen Khoa, Thao ^b   Massy, Ziad A ^b   Drüeke, Tilman ^b   Serra, Jean ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Aortic calcification; Automation in bioimaging; Low magnification histology; Mathematical morphology; Nephrology; Quantitative image analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044257437     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v22.p81-89     Document Type: Article

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