On a relaxation-labelling algorithm for quantitative assessment of tumour vasculature in tissue section images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-171

  Loukas, Constantinos G ^a,b,c   Linney, Alf ^b  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Histology; Medical image analysis; Probabilistic relaxation; Segmentation; Vasculature; Vessel counting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; TISSUE;

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; PROBABILISTIC RELAXATION ALGORITHM; VASCULAR NETWORK;

TUMORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 9644295659     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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