Usability of semiautomatic segmentation algorithms for tumor volume determination

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-150

  Mahr, Andreas ^a   Levegrün, Sabine ^a   Bahner, Malte L ^a   Kress, Jürgen ^a   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Schlegel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Liver; Spiral CT; Tumor volumetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033033104     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199902000-00007     Document Type: Article

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