Architectural analysis of oral cancer, dysplastic, and normal epithelia

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-55

  Landini, Gabriel ^a   Othman, Ibrahim E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cancer; Epithelium; Graph theory; Image analysis; Precancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CYTODIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444368478     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20082     Document Type: Article

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