Digitized microscopy in the diagnosis of bladder cancer: Analysis of >3000 cases during a 7-month period

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 279-289

  Marganski, William A ^a   Costa, Vanessa El Sirgany ^b   Kilpatrick, Michael W ^a   Tafas, Triantafyllos ^a   Yim, Joon ^b   Matthews, Michael ^b  

^a Ikonisys Inc   (United States)

^b CG(ASCP)CM   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated microscopy; Bladder cancer; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Image analysis; UroVysion FISH

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLADDER CANCER; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 9P; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; BLADDER TUMOR; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URINE;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 80054045861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.20145     Document Type: Article

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