Automatic segmentation of histological structures in mammary gland tissue sections

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 444-453

  Fernandez Gonzalez, R ^a,b   Deschamps, T ^a,b   Idica, A ^a   Malladi, R ^a   Ortiz De Solorzano, C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Automatic segmentation; Breast cancer; Fast marching; Level set; Molecular analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

BREAST CANCER; CONVENTIONAL BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; EOSIN; FAST MARCHING ALGORITHM; HEMATOXYLIN; MAMMARY GLAND TISSUE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SEGMENTATION;

HISTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAMMARY GLAND; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MICE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 2942726464     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1699011     Document Type: Article

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