Renal corpuscle morphometry with increased reliability and high level of automation

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-20

  Caruntu, Irina Draga ^a   Covic, Adrian ^b  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b C I PARHON NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Color segmentation; Computerized morphometry; Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis; Renal corpuscle

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; GLOMERULUS; HISTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 33846318586     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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