Automated segmentation of cells with IHC membrane staining

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1421-1429

  Ficarra, Elisa ^a   Di Cataldo, Santa ^a   Acquaviva, Andrea ^a   Macii, Enrico ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell segmentation; cellular membrane segmentation; image processing; immunohistochemistry (IHC); protein expression

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE CELLS; ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELL SEGMENTATION; CELLULAR MEMBRANE SEGMENTATION; CELLULAR MEMBRANES; CRITICAL TASKS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MEMBRANES; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL DATA SETS; SPATIAL REFERENCE; THERAPY DESIGN; TISSUE IMAGES;

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEMBRANES; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79955533700     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2106499     Document Type: Article

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