Role of computerized morphometric analysis in diagnosis of effusion specimens

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 670-675

  Arora, B ^a   Setia, Savita ^a   Rekhi, Bharat ^a,b  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Effusions; Image analysis; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEISHMAN STAINED SMEAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROSCOPE; MORPHOMETRICS; PERITONEAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; TELEVISION CAMERA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITIC FLUID; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT;

EID: 33748805252     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20541     Document Type: Article

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