Chromatin appearance in intermediate cells from patients with uterine cancer
Bibbo, M.; Bartels, P.H.; Sychra, J.J.; Wied, G.L.
Acta Cytologica 25(1): 23-28
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5547 PMID: 6162305 Document Number: 178898
This paper presents the differences found by the computer analysis of digitized images of visually apparently normal intermediate cells from patients with normal cytology and patients with uterine cancer. There exist differences in the absolute amount of nuclear staining, the average density of staining, cell shape and size and also differences in spectral contrasts of the nuclear chromatin. Visual cytologic detection of these changes became more conspicuous when the photomicrographs were arranged in order of their discriminant function scores.