A modular framework for the automatic classification of chromosomes in Q-band images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-130

  Poletti, Enea ^a   Grisan, Enrico ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternating decision trees; Artificial neural networks; Automatic karyotyping; Chromosome classification; Chromosome polarization; Image classification

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING DECISION TREES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION TO DETAILS; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC KARYOTYPING; CHROMOSOME CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SETS; MANUAL ANALYSIS; MEDIAL AXIS; MODULAR FRAMEWORK; NETWORK-BASED; PUBLIC DATASET; RESCALING; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; STANDARD NEURAL;

DECISION TREES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIZATION;

CHROMOSOMES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME Q BAND; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROMETAPHASE;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 84856112302     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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