A neural network based method for optical patient set-up registration in breast radiotherapy

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 677-686

  Frosio, I ^a,b   Spadea, M ^b   De Momi, E ^b   Riboldi, M ^b   Baroni, G ^b   Ferrigno, G ^b   Orecchia, R ^a,c   Pedotti, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Breast; Radiotherapy; Surface matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BREAST; PATIENT SET-UP OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE MATCHING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33645981277     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-9069-1     Document Type: Article

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