Use of anatomical priors in the segmentation of PET lung tumor images

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4242-4245

  Kim, Jinman ^a,b   Wen, Lingfeng ^a,c,d   Eberl, Stefan ^a,c,d   Fulton, Roger ^a,c,d   Feng, David Dagan ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ADJACENT STRUCTURES; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ANATOMICAL PRIORS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; DUAL-MODALITY IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; LUNG CANCERS; LUNG STRUCTURES; LUNG TUMORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PET DATA; PET IMAGING; PRECISE LOCALIZATION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR INVASION; WHOLE-BODY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48149094574     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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