A new method based on both fuzzy set and possibility theories for tumor volume segmentation on PET images

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3122-3125

  Dewalle Vignion, A S ^a   Betrouni, N ^a   Makni, N ^a,b   Huglo, D ^a   Rousseau, J ^a   Vermandel, M ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; JACCARD INDEX; PET IMAGES; POSSIBILITY THEORY; TUMOR VOLUMES;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 61849091523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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