Research Article

Chromosomal Rearrangements in Post-Chernobyl Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas: Evaluation by Spectral Karyotyping and Automated Interphase FISH

Table 2

Classifier parameters for cell and signal selection.

ParametersVariability of parametersFinally optimized parameters

Cell selection parameters

Minimum cell nucleus area0 to 32,000 μm2120 μm2
Maximum cell nucleus area0 to 32,000 μm2500 μm2
Maximum concavity depth0 to 10.35
Maximum aspect ratio1 to 102.5

Signal parameters

Min. absolute signal area0 to 100 μm20.1 μm2
Max. distance of fused signals0.1 to 100 μm0.8 μm
Min. of max. signal intensity0 to 100%33%