Quality Assurance System Using Statistical Process Control: An Implementation for Image Cytometry
Author(s) -
David Chiu,
Martial Guillaud,
Dennis D. Cox,
Michele Follen,
Calum MacAulay
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
analytical cellular pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.576
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2210-7185
pISSN - 2210-7177
DOI - 10.1155/2004/794021
Subject(s) - quality assurance , computer science , calibration , comparability , statistical process control , medical physics , process (computing) , statistics , medicine , mathematics , pathology , external quality assessment , combinatorics , operating system
Optical technologies have shown some promise for improving the care of cervical neoplasia. We are currently evaluating fluorescence and reflectance spectroscopy and quantitative cyto-histopathology for cervical neoplasia screening and diagnosis. Here we describe the establishment and application of a quality assurance (QA) system for detecting system malfunctions and assessing the comparability of four image cytometers used in a multicenter clinical trial.
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