Automatic arm removal in PET and CT images for deformable registration

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 469-477

  Gong, Lixin ^a   Pathak, Sayan ^a,b   Alessio, Adam ^c   Kinahan, Paul ^c  

^a Insightful Corporation   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm removal; Deformable image matching; Lung cancer management; Multimodality image registration; PET CT image fusion; Torso segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

ARM REMOVAL; DEFORMABLE IMAGE MATCHING; LUNG CANCER MANAGEMENT; MULTIMODALITY IMAGE REGISTRATION; TORSO SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751239446     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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