Identification of tumor epithelium and stroma in tissue microarrays using texture analysis

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Linder, Nina ^a   Konsti, Juho ^a   Turkki, Riku ^a,b   Rahtu, Esa ^b   Lundin, Mikael ^a   Nordling, Stig ^c,d   Haglund, Caj ^c   Ahonen, Timo ^b,e   Pietikäinen, Matti ^b   Lundin, Johan ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epithelium; Gabor; Haralick; Image analysis; Local binary patterns; Pattern recognition; Stroma; Support vector machine; Texture classification

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EPITHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857679040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-7-22     Document Type: Article

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