Concurrent multimodality image segmentation by active contours for radiotherapy treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4738-4749

  El Naqa, Issam ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a   Apte, Aditya ^a   Khullar, Divya ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a   Bradley, Jeffrey D ^a   Grigsby, Perry ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Multimodality imaging; Segmentation; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGES; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 36649028263     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2799886     Document Type: Article

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