A software package to improve image quality and isolation of objects of interest for quantitative stereology studies of rat hepatocarcinogenesis

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 236-245

  Xu, Yihua ^a   Pitot, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic particle analysis; Color pixel separation; Image analysis; Image background problem; Quantitative stereology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARCINOGENS; CELLS; COLOR; IMAGE QUALITY; TISSUE;

AUTOMATIC PARTICLE ANALYSIS; COLOR PIXEL SEPARATION; IMAGE BACKGROUND PROBLEM; QUANTITATIVE STEREOLOGY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CARCINOGEN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIVER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STAINING; STEREOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33646022591     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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