Automatic Delineation of On-Line Head-And-Neck Computed Tomography Images: Toward On-Line Adaptive Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 522-530

  Zhang, Tiezhi ^a   Chi, Yuwei ^a   Meldolesi, Elisa ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Deformable image registration; Image guided radiotherapy; Region of interest delineation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; ON LINE ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34247869928     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.01.038     Document Type: Article

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