A Texture Based Pattern Recognition Approach to Distinguish Melanoma from Non-Melanoma Cells in Histopathological Tissue Microarray Sections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Rexhepaj, Elton ^a   Agnarsdóttir, Margrét ^a   Bergman, Julia ^a   Edqvist, Per Henrik ^a   Bergqvist, Michael ^a   Uhlén, Mathias ^b   Gallagher, William M ^c,d   Lundberg, Emma ^b   Ponten, Fredrik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d ONCOMARK LIMITED   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOXYLIN; MELAN A;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYESIAN LEARNING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PROCEDURES; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MART-1 ANTIGEN; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877850701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062070     Document Type: Article

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