Performance of a simple chromatin-rich segmentation algorithm in quantifying basal cell carcinoma from histology images

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lesack, Kyle ^a   Naugler, Christopher ^b  

^a O'Brien Centre for the BHSc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 84855783415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-35     Document Type: Article

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