Methodology of a real-time quality control for the multispectral digital colposcope (MDC)

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Nakappan, Senthilnathan ^a   Park, Sun Young ^b   Serachitopol, Dan ^a   Price, Roderick ^a   Cardeno, Mark ^d   Au, Sylvia ^d   Mackinnon, Nick ^d   MacAulay, Calum ^d   Follen, Michele ^a,c   Pikkula, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d British Columbia and Cancer Center ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration standards; Cervical cancer; Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Colposcope; Multispectral digital colposcope; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COLPOSCOPES; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; QUALITY CONTROL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34748884431     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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