Automated 3D elastic registration for improving tumor localization in whole-body PET-CT from combined scanner

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2799-2802

  Walimbe, Vivek ^a,b,c   Dandekar, Omkar ^a,d,e   Mahmoud, Faaiza ^f   Shekhar, Raj ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC INFORMATION; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; IMAGE LOCALIZATION; PATIENT BREATHING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; METABOLISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34047096024     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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