Semiautomated thoracic and abdominal computed tomography segmentation using the belief functions theory: Application to 3D internal dosimetry

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-280

  Dieudonné, Arnaud ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Vannoorenberghe, Patrick ^b   Gardin, Isabelle ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions theory; Organ mass measurement; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BELIEF FUNCTIONS THEORY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; FILTER; HUMAN; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEASUREMENT; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPLEEN; THEORY; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE;

ABDOMEN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOMETRY; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250896741     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2006.318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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