Quantitative pathology in virtual microscopy: History, applications, perspectives

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 527-532

  Kayser, Gian ^a   Kayser, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Predictive diagnosis; Syntactic structure analysis; Virtual microscopy; Virtual slides

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; OBJECT RELATION; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY;

PREDICTIVE DIAGNOSIS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY; VIRTUAL SLIDES;

FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84880333743     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2012.12.002     Document Type: Review

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