An automated tissue preclassification approach for telepathology: Implementation and performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-102

  Barr, Mark ^a   McClellan, Stan ^b,c   Winokur, Tom ^b   Vaughn, Gregg ^b  

^a North Star Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical segmentation; Morphological segmentation (MS); Telepathology

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION; ROBOTIC MICROSCOPES; SEMIAUTONOMOUS IMAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM; TELEPATHOLOGY;

PATHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPATHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROMANIPULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 3042553376     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.828880     Document Type: Article

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