Objective scoring of transformed foci in BALB/c 3T3 cell transformation assay by statistical image descriptors

Toxicology in Vitro

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1905-1912

  Urani, C ^a   Corvi, R ^b   Callegaro, G ^a   Stefanini, F M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

BALB c 3T3 cell line; Cell transformation assay; Foci; Morphological features; Statistical image descriptors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL ASSAY; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; GENOTOXICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

BALB/C 3T3 CELL LINE; BD; BOUNDARY INDEX; CELL TRANSFORMATION ASSAY; CTA; ED; EFP; EQUIVALENT DIAMETER; FD; FERET DIAMETER; FOCI; IN VITRO CELL TRANSFORMATION ASSAY; MD; MEDIAN; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PERIMETER OF THE CIRCLE WITH EQUIVALENT AREA; REGION OF INTEREST; ROI; STATISTICAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS;

ANIMALS; BALB 3T3 CELLS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84880578934     PISSN: 08872333     EISSN: 18793177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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