Data integration from pathology slides for quantitative imaging of multiple cell types within the tumor immune cell infiltrate

Abstract Background Immune cell infiltrates (ICI) of tumors are scored by pathologists around tumor glands. To obtain a better understanding of the immune infiltrate, individual immune cell types, their activation states and location relative to tumor cells need to be determined. This process requir...

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Main Authors: Zhaoxuan Ma, Stephen L. Shiao, Emi J. Yoshida, Steven Swartwood, Fangjin Huang, Michael E. Doche, Alice P. Chung, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Arkadiusz Gertych
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Diagnostic Pathology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13000-017-0658-8