Segmentation of clinical structures for radiotherapy treatment planning: A comparison of two morphological approaches

ANZIIS 2001 - Proceedings of the 7th Australian and New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 15-18

  Bueno, G ^a   Fisher, M ^b   Aldridge, R ^b  

^a CEIT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; CLINICAL STRUCTURES; GOLD STANDARDS; MANUAL INTERACTION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 1142285299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ANZIIS.2001.974041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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