ImageMiner: A software system for comparative analysis of tissue microarrays using content-based image retrieval, high-performance computing, and grid technology

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-415

  Foran, David J ^a,b   Yang, Lin ^a   Chen, Wenjin ^a,b   Hu, Jun ^a,b   Goodell, Lauri A ^a   Reiss, Michael ^b   Wang, Fusheng ^c   Kurc, Tahsin ^c   Pan, Tony ^c   Sharma, Ashish ^c   Saltz, Joel H ^c  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DATA EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MICROSCOPY; SAMPLING; TISSUE MICROARRAY; WEB BROWSER;

DATA MINING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959644633     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000170     Document Type: Article

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