Automation-assisted cervical cancer screening in manual liquid-based cytology with hematoxylin and eosin staining

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 214-230

  Zhang, Ling ^a,b   Kong, Hui ^c   Ting Chin, Chien ^a,b   Liu, Shaoxiong ^d   Fan, Xinmin ^a   Wang, Tianfu ^a,b   Chen, Siping ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound   (China)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d The 6th Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University Health Science Center   (China)

Author keywords

Automation assisted screening; Cervical cancer; Cervical cell classification; Cervical cell segmentation; Developing countries; H E stain; Manual liquid based cytology

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AUTOMATION-ASSISTED SCREENING; CELL NUCLEUS; CERVICAL CELL CLASSIFICATION; CERVICAL CELL SEGMENTATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; H&E STAIN; HUMAN; MANUAL LIQUID-BASED CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

AUTOMATION-ASSISTED SCREENING; CERVICAL CANCER; CERVICAL CELL CLASSIFICATION; CERVICAL CELL SEGMENTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; H&E STAIN; MANUAL LIQUID-BASED CYTOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); FEMALE; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894026203     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22407     Document Type: Article

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