Reproducibility of immunostaining quantification and description of a new digital image processing procedure for quantitative evaluation of immunohistochemistry in pathology

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 353-365

  Bernardo, Vagner ^a   Loureno, Simone Q C ^a   Cruz, Renato ^a   Monteiro Leal, Luiz H ^b   Silva, Licnio E ^c   Camisasca, Danielle R ^a   Farina, Marcos ^d   Lins, Ulysses ^d  

^a Universidade Federal Fluminense   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer assisted image analysis; Computer assisted image processing; Immunohistochemistry; Ki 67 antigen; Microscopy; Oral leukoplakia; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; ERYTHROCYTE BAND 3 PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; SLC4A3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANION EXCHANGE PROTEIN 1, ERYTHROCYTE; ANTIPORTERS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 69149095214     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927609090710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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