An Assessment of Digital Image Analysis to Measure Fibrosis in Liver Biopsy Specimens of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C
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- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 114 (5), 712-718
- https://doi.org/10.1309/d7au-eyw7-4b6c-k08y
Abstract
The aim was to assess the validity of a digitally computed fibrosis ratio as a measure of fibrosis stage in liver biopsy specimens. We scored 230 livThis publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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