Endoscopic quantification of mucosal surface roughness for grading severity of ulcerative colitis

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-72

  Sasaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Fukuda, Shinsaku ^a   Mikami, Tatsuya ^a   Hada, Ryukichi ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image processing; Matts grade; Mucosal surface roughness; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 40549094636     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2008.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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