Automated Detection of Portal Fields and Central Veins in Whole-Slide Images of Liver Tissue

• Main Authors: Daniel Budelmann (Author), Hendrik Laue (Author), Nick Weiss (Author), Uta Dahmen (Author), Lorenza A. D'Alessandro (Author), Ina Biermayer (Author), Ursula Klingmüller (Author), Ahmed Ghallab (Author), Reham Hassan (Author), Brigitte Begher-Tibbe (Author), Jan G. Hengstler (Author), Lars Ole Schwen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Many physiological processes and pathological phenomena in the liver tissue are spatially heterogeneous. At a local scale, biomarkers can be quantified along the axis of the blood flow, from portal fields (PFs) to central veins (CVs), i.e., in zonated form. This requires detecting PFs and CVs. Howev...