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Measuring fractal dimension may help discriminate malignant from benign cells.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Measuring fractal dimension may help discriminate malignant from benign cells.
According to recent research from Kuwait, "In the present study, box-counting fractal dimensions of benign and malignant cells of breast tumors on cytology material were measured and compared.
"We selected fine-needle aspiration cytology smears of 14 cases of histopathology-proven infiltrating duct carcinomas and seven cases of fibroadenoma of the breast. Five cells were randomly selected from each case," wrote P. Dey and colleagues, Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Histopathology Laboratory.
"Box-counting fractal dimensions of all cells were measured with the help of an image cytometer (Leica, Cambridge, UK), using Quantimet 600 software (Leica). In total, 70 malignant cells and 35 benign cells were studied," the researchers wrote.
"The mean fractal dimensions of malignant cells and benign cells were 0.9571 [+ or -] 0.1265 and 0.8354 [+ or -] 0.1367, respectively. There was significant difference in the fractal ...
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