Towards fully automatic acquisition of multimodal cytopathological microscopy images with autofocus and scene matching

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 314-323

  Bell, André A ^a   Wurflinger T ^a   Ropers, S O ^a   Bocking A ^b   Aach, T ^a   Meyer Ebrecht, D ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Automation; Cytopathology; Multimodal microscopy; Scene detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOMATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY; MULTIMODAL CELL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SMEAR; STAINING;

DATA DISPLAY; GERMANY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249293024     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/ME9049     Document Type: Article

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