AnaSP: A software suite for automatic image analysis of multicellular spheroids

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-52

  Piccinini, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer 3D model; High content screening; Image processing; Multi cellular aggregates; Pre clinical oncology; Widefield microscopy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CULTURE; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORIES; OPEN SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; CELLULAR AGGREGATES; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-CONTENT SCREENING; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PRE-CLINICAL; WIDE-FIELD MICROSCOPIES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MICROSCOPY; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84924540215     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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