AUTOIMMUNITY

ICAP was initiated as a workshop aiming to thoroughly discuss and to promote consensus regarding the richness in nuances of morphological patterns observed in the indirect immunofluorescence assay on HEp-2 cells. The ICAP initiative was implemented at the 12th International Workshop on Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity (IWAA) by members of theAutoantibody Standardization Committee, a subcommittee of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) Quality Assessment and Standardization Committee and affiliated with the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention(CDC).

Citation for this work: E.K.L. Chan, J. Damoiseaux, O.G. Carballo, K. Conrad, W. de Melo Cruvinel, P.L.C. Francescantonio, M.J. Fritzler, I. Garcia-De La Torre, M. Herold, T. Mimori, M. Satoh, C.A. von Mühlen, and L.E.C. Andrade. Report of the First International Consensus on Standardized Nomenclature of Antinuclear Antibody HEp-2 Cell Patterns (ICAP) 2014-2015. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Representative images, based on pixel dimension, resolution, and size, were submitted online by ICAP members. For each pattern, between 2 to >10 images were submitted. Most patterns had average 5 to 8 images. More than ten ICAP members voted for the best three images representing each pattern and the top two images for each pattern are displayed on this web site.

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