[Use of Lucia, the Laboratory Universal Computer Image Analysis System, in histo- and cytopathology]

The quantification in pathology includes items of daily routine in some applications (measurement of the melanoma thickness acc. Breslow, area in the slide occupied with microcarcinoma, the calcified and non-calcified bone ratio), as well as selected applications (ploidy in some tumours), or rather research oriented applications that might become a daily routine in the future (AgNOR evaluation, papillary carcinoma nuclei features measurement). A wide spectrum of use is represented by picture storage, archivation, alba creation, and tasks automation. The possibilities of the LUCIA system starting with grabbing, shading correction, image enhancement, preprocessing, continuing with picture binarisation, measurement of objects and textures using restriction and are of interest, and data presentation, evaluation and export as well as archivation of images and text information will be discussed.