Ultrasonic spectrum-analysis and neural-network classification as a basis for ultrasonic imaging to target brachytherapy of prostate cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-53

  Feleppa, Ernest J ^a   Ennis, Ronald D ^b   Schiff, Peter B ^b   Wuu, Cheng Shie ^b   Kalisz, Andrew ^a   Ketterling, Jeffery ^a   Urban, Stella ^a   Liu, Tian ^b   Fair, William R ^e   Porter, Christopher R ^c   Gillespie, John R ^d  

^a RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e Riverside Research Institute ^*

Author keywords

Neural networks; Prostate cancer; Spectrum analysis; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; B SCAN; CANCER LOCALIZATION; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0013290186     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(02)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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