Segmentation of head and neck lymph node regions for radiotherapy planning using active contour-based atlas registration

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-147

  Gorthi, Subrahmanyan ^a   Duay, Valérie ^b   Houhou, Nawal ^a   Bach Cuadra, Meritxell ^a   Schick, Ulrike ^c   Becker, Minerva ^c   Allal, Abdelkarim S ^c   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; Head and neck; IMRT; Lymph node regions; Non rigid registration; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; HEAD AND NECK; IMRT; LYMPH NODE REGIONS; NON-RIGID REGISTRATION;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 62349100165     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011104     Document Type: Article

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