Pre-optimization of radiotherapy treatment planning: An artificial neural network classification aided technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1513-1528

  Hosseini Ashrafi, M E ^a   Bagherebadian, H ^a   Yahaqi, E ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032995623     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/6/306     Document Type: Article

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