Automated assessment of keratocyte density in stromal images from the confoscan 4 confocal microscope

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1918-1926

  McLaren, Jay W ^a   Bourne, William M ^a   Patel, Sanjay V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SELECTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMILEUSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; VOLUMETRY; CELL COUNT; CORNEA STROMA; CYTOLOGY; EXCIMER LASER; FIBROBLAST; METHODOLOGY; MYOPIA;

CELL COUNT; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOPIA;

EID: 77951218924     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4186     Document Type: Article

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