title: Comparison of conventional morphometry and image analysis for the solution of histomorphometric problems.
abstract: The main differences between conventional morphometry and image analysis for their application in histopathology are pointed out. Conventional morphometry allows the use of contextural informations and a priori knowledge in a convenient manner. This is the most complicated thing in image analysis. The solution of this problem lies on the field of artificial intelligence. On the other hand, image analysis is able to measure densitometrical and textural features, to determine arbitrary quantiles and moments of feature distributions, to match scenes. Therefore the descriptive power of image analysis is much higher than the power of conventional morphometry.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologische Anatomie des Bereichs Medizin (Charité) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hufnagl
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wassilew
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wenzelides
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D010336:Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D014796:Visual Perception