Automated tumour delineation using joint PET/CT information

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Potesil, Vaclav ^a,b   Huang, Xiaolei ^a,c   Zhou, Xiang Sean ^a  

^a Computer Aided Diagnosis and Therapy Solutions ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

PET CT; Radiation therapy planning; Segmentation; Tumor delineation

Indexed keywords

PET CLASSIFICATION; RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING; TUMOR BOUNDARIES; TUMOR DELINEATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 35248864002     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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