Automated classification of inflammation in colon histological sections based on digital microscopy and advanced image analysis

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 230-237

  Ficsor, Levente ^a   Varga, Viktor Sebestyén ^a   Tagscherer, Attila ^a   Tulassay, Zsolt ^a   Molnar, Bela ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Analysis; Automated; Classification; Colon; Gland detection; Image segmentation; Tissue cytometric features

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; COLITIS; COLON MUCOSA; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOMETRY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPITHELIUM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLITIS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 40049108865     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20527     Document Type: Article

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