Semantic Focusing Allows Fully Automated Single-Layer Slide Scanning of Cervical Cytology Slides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lahrmann, Bernd ^a,b   Valous, Nektarios A ^a,b   Eisenmann, Urs ^b   Wentzensen, Nicolas ^c   Grabe, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P16;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID BASED CYTOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE LAYER SLIDE SCANNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHOLE SLIDE SCANNING;

ARTIFACTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84876024202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061441     Document Type: Article

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