Quantifying the astrocytoma cell response to candidate pharmaceutical from F-ACTIN image analysis

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5768-5771

  Cui, Chi ^a   Jaja, Joseph ^a   Turbyville, Thomas ^b   Beutler, John ^c   Gudla, Prabhakar ^b   Nandy, Kaustav ^b   Lockett, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory NCI Frederick   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ASTROCYTOMA CELLS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE IMAGES; MOLECULAR PATHWAYS; NUMERICAL FEATURES; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FORMATION; VISUAL INSPECTION;

PROTEINS;

EID: 77950992862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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