Evaluation of an atlas-based automatic segmentation software for the delineation of brain organs at risk in a radiation therapy clinical context

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-99

  Isambert, Aurélie ^a   Dhermain, Frédéric ^b   Bidault, François ^c   Commowick, Olivier ^d,e   Bondiau, Pierre Yves ^f   Malandain, Grégoire ^e   Lefkopoulos, Dimitri ^a  

^a Service de Physique

^b Département de Radiothérapie

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^d DOSIsoft SA   (France)

^e INRIA   (France)

^f CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Organs at risk; Pathological brain; Quantitative study; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLAS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; EYE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41849128499     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.030     Document Type: Article

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