Detection of brachytherapy seeds using 3D ultrasound

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 855-858

  Wen, Xu ^a   Salcudean, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

3-D ULTRASOUND; LOCAL SEARCH SPACES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; REFLECTED POWER; SEED LOCALIZATION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849172828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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