New breast cancer prognostic factors identified by computer-aided image analysis of HE stained histopathology images

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Jia Mei ^a   Qu, Ai Ping ^a   Wang, Lin Wei ^a   Yuan, Jing Ping ^a   Yang, Fang ^a   Xiang, Qing Ming ^a   Maskey, Ninu ^b   Yang, Gui Fang ^b   Liu, Juan ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); FEMALE; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84930680562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10690     Document Type: Article

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