A virtual microscopy system to scan, evaluate and archive biomarker enhanced cervical cytology slides

Cellular Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 109-119

  Grabe, Niels ^a,b   Lahrmann, Bernd ^a,b   Pommerencke, Thora ^a,b   Von Knebel Doeberitz, Magnus ^a   Reuschenbach, Miriam ^a   Wentzensen, Nicolas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cytology; Image processing; Internet; P16; Virtual microscopy; Whole slide scanning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN P16;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY;

CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77749236919     PISSN: 15705870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CLO-2009-0508     Document Type: Article

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