Microscopy

Researchers at Medical University of Graz release new data on microscopy

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 2nd, 2009

According to recent research from Graz, Austria, "In vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) represents a novel imaging tool that allows the non-invasive examination of skin cancer morphology at a quasi histological resolution without biopsy. Previous studies dealt with the search for diagnostic, but subjective visual criteria."

"In this study we examined the correlation between objectively reproducible image-analysis features und visual morphology in melanocytic skin tumours using CLSM. Eight hundred and fifty-seven CLSM tumour images including 408 benign nevi and 449 melanoma images were evaluated. Image analysis was based on features of the wavelet transform...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-02)

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