Computer modeling of lung-cancer cell populations: light microscopic cell nucleus structure image analysis

Lung cancer cell nuclei light microscopic image storing was performed in a computer database as a 32 bit number in 96 patients operated on for lung cancer in order to characterize the differences among various histological forms, to find out the nuclear feature combinations for them, and to divide the existing heterogeneous cell population into subpopulations displaying variable morphology and sensitivity to anticancer agents.© (1993) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.