A clustering based method for collagen proportional area extraction in liver biopsy images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn 2015-November, Issue , 2015, Pages 3097-3100

  Giannakeas, Nikolaos ^a   Tsipouras, Markos G ^a   Tzallas, Alexandros T ^b   Kyriakidi, Kalliroi ^a   Tsianou, Zoe E ^a   Manousou, Pinelopi ^c   Hall, Andrew ^d   Karvounis, Evaggelos C ^a   Tsianos, Vasileios ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ALGORITHM; BIOPSY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLAGEN; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER;

EID: 84953229354     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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