Quantitative bone metastases analysis based on image segmentation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1401-1406

  Erdi, Yusuf E ^a   Humm, John L ^a   Imbriaco, Massimo ^a   Yeung, Henry ^a   Larson, Steven M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone metastases; Region growing; Skeletal mass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 0030983930     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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