Manual stage acquisition and interactive display of digital slides in histopathology

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1413-1422

  Gherardi, Alessandro ^a   Bevilacqua, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital slide (DS); histology; mosaicing; virtual microscopy (VM); whole slide (WS)

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPES; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; DIGITAL SLIDES; HARDWARE FACILITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; INTERACTIVE DISPLAY; MOSAICING; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY; WHOLE SLIDE (WS);

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BLADDER TUMOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TESTIS;

HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY; TESTIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84904367797     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2291998     Document Type: Article

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