An image-analysis system based on support vector machines for automatic grade diagnosis of brain-tumour astrocytomas in clinical routine

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-193

  Glotsos, D ^a   Spyridonos, P ^a   Cavouras, D ^b   Ravazoula, P ^c   Dadioti, P Arapantoni ^d   Nikiforidis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d General Anticancer METAXA Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Astrocytomas; Grading; Support vector machines; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GREECE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80052079632     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230500077444     Document Type: Article

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