A prototype for unsupervised analysis of tissue microarrays for cancer research and diagnostics

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-96

  Chen, Wenjin ^a   Reiss, Michael ^b   Foran, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated analysis; Breast cancer; Tissue microarrays (TMAs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCONTROLLERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; ONCOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROTEINS; TISSUE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BREAST CANCERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL EXPRESSION LEVELS; PRINCIPAL COLOR DECOMPOSITION; TISSUE MICROARRAYS;

HISTOLOGY;

TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORIMETRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNET; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELEMEDICINE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 3042523861     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.828891     Document Type: Article

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