Fractal dimension as a prognostic factor for laryngeal carcinoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3 B, 2005, Pages 2141-2144

  Delides, Alexander ^a,b,f   Panayiotides, Ioannis ^d   Alegakis, Athanasios ^c   Kyroudi, Aspasia ^d   Banis, Constantinos ^b   Pavlaki, Aikaterini ^d   Helidonis, Emmanouel ^e   Kittas, Christos ^d  

^a ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^b Metaxa Memorial Cancer Hospital of Piraeus   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^f NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dimensions; Fractal; Image analysis; Laryngeal cancer; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 21344443438     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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