title: Principles and clinical applications of image analysis.
abstract: Image processing has traveled to the lunar surface and back, finding its way into the clinical laboratory. Advances in digital computers have improved the technology of image analysis, resulting in a wide variety of medical applications. Offering improvements in turnaround time, standardized systems, increased precision, and walkaway automation, digital image analysis has likely found a permanent home as a diagnostic aid in the interpretation of microscopic as well as macroscopic laboratory images.
authors.affiliation: Path Lab, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kisner
mesh_terms: D003582:Cytogenetics; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D006405:Hematology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007753:Laboratories; D010336:Pathology / Q000379:methods; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D012661:Semen / Q000032:analysis; D014556:Urine / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins