Assessment of two automated imaging systems in evaluating estrogen receptor status in breast carcinoma

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-455

  Gokhale, Sumita ^a   Rosen, Daniel ^a   Sneige, Nour ^a   Diaz, Leslie K ^a   Resetkova, Erika ^a   Sahin, Aysegul ^a   Liu, Jinsong ^a   Albarracin, Constance T ^a  

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

Author keywords

ACIS; Digital imaging analysis; Estrogen receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 37349093377     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e31802ee998     Document Type: Article

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