Histology image analysis for carcinoma detection and grading

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 538-556

  He, Lei ^a   Long, L Rodney ^a   Antani, Sameer ^a   Thoma, George R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Computed assisted diagnosis; Feature extraction; Histology image analysis; Histopathology; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CAD SYSTEM; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMA; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY IMAGES; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; MANUAL INTERVENTION; PREPARATION TECHNIQUE; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

HISTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOMA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCESS DESIGN; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863869228     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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