Cascade pattern recognition structure for improving quantitative assessment of estrogen receptor status in breast tissue carcinomas

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 218-225

  Kostopoulos, Spiros ^a   Cavouras, Dionisis ^c   Daskalakis, Antonis ^a   Kagadis, George C ^a   Kalatzis, Ioannis ^c   Georgiadis, Pantelis ^a   Ravazoula, Panagiota ^b   Nikiforidis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptors; Histopathology; Image analysis; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 49649118287     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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