Discrimination between tumour epithelium and stroma via perception-based features

Neurocomputing

Volumn 154, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-126

  Bianconi, Francesco ^a   Álvarez Larrán, Alberto ^b   Fernández, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Epithelium; Image analysis; Perceptual features; Stroma

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TISSUE;

COLORECTAL CANCER; EPITHELIUM; HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR RULES; PERCEPTUAL FEATURE; STATE OF THE ART; STROMA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPITHELIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NAIVE BAYES RULE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR RULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

EID: 84925119127     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.12.012     Document Type: Article

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