Quantitative characterization of metastatic disease in the spine. Part II. Histogram-based analyses

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3279-3285

  Whyne, Cari ^a   Hardisty, Michael ^a   Wu, Florence ^a   Skrinskas, Tomas ^a   Clemons, Mark ^b   Gordon, Lyle ^a   Basran, Parminder S ^c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Spine; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; HISTOGRAM-BASED METHOD; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SEGMENTATION THRESHOLD; SPINE; VERTEBRAE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINE METASTASIS; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA;

EID: 34547438901     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2756939     Document Type: Article

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