Computer-based association of the texture of expressed estrogen receptor nuclei with histologic grade using immunohistochemically-stained breast carcinomas

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 187-196

  Kostopoulos, Spiros ^a   Glotsos, Dimitris ^b   Cavouras, Dionisis ^b   Daskalakis, Antonis ^a   Kalatzis, Ioannis ^b   Georgiadis, Pantelis ^a   Bougioukos, Panagiotis ^a   Ravazoula, Panagiota ^c   Nikiforidis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Estrogen receptors; Histologic grade; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HEMATOXYLIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 68149124297     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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