KI-67 hot-spots detection on glioblastoma tissue sections

Glioblastomas are very aggressive cerebral tumors which are characterized by strong proliferative activity which is often assessed using the Ki-67 staining method. We propose a novel clustering method that exhibits high performance to detect Ki-67 hot-spots on immunohistochemical slides of glioblastomas.

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