Segmentation of rodent whole-body dynamic PET images: An unsupervised method based on voxel dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 342-354

  Maroy, Renaud ^b   Boisgard, Raphaël ^b,c   Comtat, Claude ^a,b   Frouin, Vincent ^d   Cathier, Pascal ^e,f   Duchesnay, Edouard ^c,e,f   Dollé, Frédéric ^b   Nielsen, Peter E ^g   Trébossen, Régine ^b   Tavitian, Bertrand ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

^f Lab Sci Cognitives P   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Partiai volume effect; Pnysioiogicai movements; Positron emission tomography (PET); Rodent whole body; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHARMACOKINETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; RATS;

PARTIAI VOLUME EFFECTS; PNYSIOIOGICAI MOVEMENTS; RODENT WHOLE-BODY; VOXEL DYNAMICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 40149095128     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.905106     Document Type: Article

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