Coregistered FDG PET/CT-based textural characterization of head and neck cancer for radiation treatment planning

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 374-383

  Yu, Huan ^a   Caldwell, Curtis ^b   Mah, Katherine ^b   Mozeg, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image texture analysis; Pattern classification; Positron emission tomography (PET); Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TEXTURES;

ABNORMAL TISSUES; AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL USE; COREGISTERED; CT IMAGES; CT SIMULATIONS; FDG PETS; HEAD AND NECKS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCERS; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; K-NN CLASSIFIERS; LEAVE ONE OUTS; LUNG CANCERS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NORMAL TISSUES; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SEGMENTED REGIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITIES; TEXTURAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; TEXTURAL FEATURES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61449171165     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2004425     Document Type: Article

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