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At least a lobectomy and sampling of recommended mediastinal lymph node stations, good Zubrod performance status, adequate organ function, and a formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tumor specimen were required.

While additional validation on real clinical specimen is required, our translational efforts confirm that computational image analysis is an efficient hypothesis generator for human pathologists, and implies that such approaches can be used for biomarker discovery in other tumor types and in other clinical settings (e.g. predictive biomarker research).

Through a sensitivity analysis it is shown that for sandwich structures with a soft core only one specimen is required for characterizing the dominant properties of both the core and the skins.

The challenge is in distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions, and often, a histopathological examination of a biopsy specimen is required for a definite diagnosis [1, 2].

At least one biopsy specimen was required to be positive.

Additionally, availability to provide a blood specimen was required.

For MACS, a minimum of 0.5 g tissue specimen was required.

On the other hand, if a multilevel spinal device is involved in the investigation, a multisegmental specimen is required.

It should be noted that the method still has a few limitations since the symmetry of specimen is required.

When circulating gastrin and CgA are raised, a fasting specimen is required; autoimmune atrophic gastritis must be excluded, and Helicobactor pylori should be eradicated.

Even where testing is possible, transplant recipient samples may be unavailable or difficult to obtain, particularly if a brain biopsy specimen is required to establish a diagnosis.