Mitotic figure recognition: Agreement among pathologists and computerized detector

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-100

  Malon, Christopher ^a   Brachtel, Elena ^b   Cosatto, Eric ^a   Graf, Hans Peter ^a   Kurata, Atsushi ^c   Kuroda, Masahiko ^c   Meyer, John S ^d   Saito, Akira ^e   Wu, Shulin ^b   Yagi, Yukako ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MITOSIS; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITOSIS; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM GRADING; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863076347     PISSN: 22107177     EISSN: 22107185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ACP-2011-0029     Document Type: Article

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