Feasibility study of the use of similarity maps in the evaluation of oncological dynamic positron emission tomography images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-32

  Thireou, T ^a   Kontaxakis, G ^b   Strauss, L G ^c   Dimitrakopoulou Strauss, A ^c   Pavlopoulos, Sotiris ^a   Santos, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic PET; Feature extraction; Positron emission tomography; Similarity mapping; Standardized uptake value

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS (COR); LESIONS; NORMALIZATION CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS (NCOR); SIMILARITY MAPPING (SM);

ONCOLOGY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 14044278204     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345119     Document Type: Article

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