Improving reliability of live/dead cell counting through automated image mosaicing

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 448-463

  Piccinini, Filippo ^a   Tesei, Anna ^b   Paganelli, Giulia ^b   Zoli, Wainer ^b   Bevilacqua, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer treatments; Cell counting; Hemocytometer; Image processing; Oncology; Widefield microscopy

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ONCOLOGY; RELIABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CELL COUNTING; FULLY AUTOMATED; HEMOCYTOMETER; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; WIDE-FIELD MICROSCOPIES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED IMAGE MOSAICING; AUTOMATION; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL COUNTING; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TYPE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER CELL LINE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ALGORITHM; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

TRYPAN BLUE;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRYPAN BLUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84909957553     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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