Equalisation of archival microscopic images from immunohistochemically stained tissue sections

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-76

  Neuman, Urszula ^a,c   Korzynska, Anna ^a   Lopez, Carlos ^b   Lejeune, Marylene ^b   Roszkowiak, Łukasz ^a   Bosch, Ramon ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b HOSPITAL VERGE DE LA CINTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image equalization; Image light distribution; Immunohistochemically stained images

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CAMERA; DIGITAL CAMERA; DIGITAL IMAGING; DUST; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIGHT MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DENSITY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 84880562430     PISSN: 02085216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0208-5216(13)70056-1     Document Type: Article

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