Measuring tumor burden - Comparison of automatic and manual techniques

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1695-1700

  Zhao, Binsheng ^a   Schwartz, Lawrence H ^a   Lefkowitz, Robert A ^a   Wang, Liang ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Computer aided detection (CAD); Pulmonary metastasis; Segmentation; Tumor burden

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION (CAD); PULMONARY METASTASIS; TUMOR BURDEN;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644251718     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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