Factor analysis in prostate cancer: Delineation of organ structures and automatic generation of in- and output functions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2338-2343

  Schiepers, Christiaan ^a   Hoh, Carl K ^b   Nuyts, Johan ^c   Wu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Phelps, Michael E ^a   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

C 11 acetate; Factor analysis; Kinetic modeling; Positron emission tomography (PET); Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; BODY CONTOUR; DELINEATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; KINETIC MODELING; ONCOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; ORGAN STRUCTURES; PROSTATE CANCER;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036815761     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803872     Document Type: Article

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