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The methodology was developed for image segmentation and trained for object classification using a representative set of images from controls and treated rat liver specimen from various studies, before the system was applied the specimen of this study.
Thus, RS provides a numerical accounting of significance for an individual specimen or an average signal.
As many as 30% of patients with breast cancer who have undergone curative surgery and show no evidence of locoregional or distant disease still have recurrent disease over 5-10 years [ 1 2 ] . Some of these treatment failures may be attributed to residual disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes [ 3 ] . The limitation of routine histopathologic examination of the tumor margins and the dissected lymph node specimen is well known [ 4 ] . Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] . Micrometastases can be found by immunohistochemistry or polymerase chain reaction in 10-30% of the patients previously deemed free of disease by conventional histological methods [ 7 8 ] . The prognostic importance of micrometastases found with these sensitive methods are now being evaluated [ 9 10 11 ] .
However, excess crosslinking frequently masks binding domains for probes while inadequate fixation may not preserve structures to leave them susceptible to mechanical forces during specimen processing.
Normal breast tissues were obtained from the periphery of specimens surgically resected for treatment of cancer or from an autopsy specimen obtained from a patient who had died of injuries sustained in an accident (not breast cancer); the latter was obtained from the Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders at the University of Maryland.
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