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Breast Cancer
Research from T. Markiewicz et al broadens understanding of breast cancer
April 30th, 2009
According to recent research from Warsaw, Poland, "To compare 2 automatic systems for the recognition and counting of 2 different families of cells through nuclei staining: Ki-67 in neuroblastoma and estrogen/progesterone (ER/PR) status staining in breast cancer. Morphology-based segmentation strategies and the Support Vector Machine approach have been used for the accurate extraction and recognition of the cells." "To achieve the highest possible accuracy, 2 specialized systems specially suited for Ki-67 and ER/PR staining have been developed. The testing set of histologic slides of Ki-67 and ER/PR staining has been assessed by our system and the results compared to...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-30)
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