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The term ‘chromosome analysis’ covers a range of quite distinct problems which have little in common beyond requiring measurements of images of chromosomes at or near to the metaphase of cell division. The most common task (and what most people understand by chromosome analysis) is to detect persistent deviations from the standard human cellular complement of 46 normal chromosomes, in all cells of a sample derived from peripheral blood or from amniotic fluid. This task is also known as karyotyping, and has as a subproblem the arrangement of the images of the chromosomes in a cell in an ordered picture or karyogram.
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Piper, J.R.I. (1982). Chromosome Analysis: Image Processing or Pattern Recognition?. In: Paul, J.P., Jordan, M.M., Ferguson-Pell, M.W., Andrews, B.J. (eds) Computing in Medicine. Strathclyde Bioengineering Seminars. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06077-1_30
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