Advantages of stereological methods in biomedicine: Efficiently obtaining unbiased estimates of geometrical characteristics for 3-D structures

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 110-115

  Kubínová, Lucie ^a,b  

^a Institute of Physiology   (Czech Republic)

^b Institute of Physiology   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

DISECTOR PRINCIPLE; FAKIR METHODS; STEREOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; GEOMETRY; STEREOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 2642689673     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.664039     Document Type: Article

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