The development and validation of the Virtual Tissue Matrix, a software application that facilitates the review of tissue microarrays on line

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Conway, Catherine M ^a   O'Shea, Deirdre ^b   O'Brien, Sallyann ^c   Lawler, Darragh K ^a   Dodrill, Graham D ^a   O'Grady, Anthony ^b   Barrett, Helen ^b   Gulmann, Christian ^b   O'Driscoll, Lorraine ^a   Gallagher, William M ^c   Kay, Elaine W ^b   O'Shea, Daniel G ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; LIGHTING INTENSITY; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; THREE PARAMETERS; TISSUE MICROARRAYS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIGHTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROARRAYS; MICROSCOPES; USER INTERFACES;

TISSUE;

BETA CATENIN; UVOMORULIN;

ALGORITHM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ILLUMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROSCOPE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE MICROARRAY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIGNETTE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33745230764     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-256     Document Type: Review

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