title: Image processing in pathology.
abstract: The present study is an effort to ally biopsies to well defined groups of diseases by means of automatic analysis of liver cell nuclei. The results obtained should support the morphologic differential diagnosis of liver diseases. A total of 78 liver biopsies from patients with obstructive jaundice, chronic hepatitis, acute viral hepatitis or with alcoholic liver injury were investigated. Performing automatic analysis of the microscopic pictures 95% of the equatorial sectioned liver cell nuclei are correctly recognized.
mesh_terms: D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006519:Hepatitis, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology