Robust gridding of TMAs after whole-slide imaging using template matching

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 77 A, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1169-1176

  Lahrmann, Bernd ^a,b   Halama, Niels ^a,b   Westphal, Kathi ^a,b   Ernst, Claudia ^a,b   Elsawaf, Zeinab ^a,b   Sinn, Peter ^a   Bosch, Franz X ^b   Dickhaus, Hartmut ^a,b   Jäger, Dirk ^a   Schirmacher, Peter ^a,b   Grabe, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gridding; Image processing; Registration; Scanning; Tissue microarrays; TMA; Virtual microscopy; Whole slide imaging

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649552272     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20949     Document Type: Article

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