Differential diagnostic capacities of computer-aided analysis of thyroid follicular tumor images

摘要

To establish the objective quantitative cytological parameters of thyroid follicular tumor cells for their further use as criteria for differential cytological diagnosis, the authors made a mathematical analysis of their values obtained by computer-aided karyocytometry of thyroid follicular tumors. It is recommended that the arithmetic mean values of nuclear areas, perimeters, and optic densities should be used as criteria for differential diagnosis when there are qualitative cytological signs indicating that the tumor under study may belong to the follicular type of papillary carcinoma.