Monitoring brain tumor response to therapy using MRI segmentation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 323-334

  Vaidyanathan, M ^a   Clarke, Laurence P ^a,b   Hall, L O ^c   Heidtman, C ^a   Velthuizen, R ^a   Gosche, K ^a   Phuphanich, S ^a   Wagner, H ^a   Greenberg, H ^a   Silbiger, M L ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Image segmentation; MRI; Pattern recognition; Tumor response evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUZZY LOGIC; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030969131     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(96)00386-4     Document Type: Article

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