Quantitative analysis of TDLUs using adaptive morphological shape techniques

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8676, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rosebrock, Adrian ^a   Caban, Jesus J ^b   Figueroa, Jonine ^c   Gierach, Gretchen ^c   Linville, Laura ^c   Hewitt, Stephen ^d   Sherman, Mark ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b National Intrepid Center of Excellence   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acini detection; Adaptive morphological shape; Breast cancer; Clustering; Image processing; TDLU detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPE; BREAST CANCER; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT;

BIOPSY; COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 84878599613     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2006619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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