Automated quantification of steatosis: agreement with stereological point counting

• Main Authors: André Homeyer (Author), Patrik Nasr (Author), Christiane Engel (Author), Stergios Kechagias (Author), Peter Lundberg (Author), Mattias Ekstedt (Author), Henning Kost (Author), Nick Weiss (Author), Tim Palmer (Author), Horst Karl Hahn (Author), Darren Treanor (Author), Claes Lundström (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Steatosis is routinely assessed histologically in clinical practice and research. Automated image analysis can reduce the effort of quantifying steatosis. Since reproducibility is essential for practical use, we have evaluated different analysis methods in terms of their agreemen...