A tool for the quantitative spatial analysis of complex cellular systems

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1300-1313

  Fernandez Gonzalez, Rodrigo ^a,b,c   Barcellos Hoff, Mary Helen ^b   Ortiz de Solórzano, Carlos ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mammary gland; Multiscale analysis; Optical microscopy; Quantitative biology; Spatial distribution; Tissue topology

Indexed keywords

CELLS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

MAMMARY GLAND; MULTISCALE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE TOPOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAMMARY GLAND; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UDDER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 26444526665     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.852466     Document Type: Article

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