Automatic Segmentation of Whole Breast Using Atlas Approach and Deformable Image Registration

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1493-1500

  Reed, Valerie K ^a   Woodward, Wendy A ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Perkins, George H ^a   Tereffe, Welela ^a   Oh, Julia L ^a   Yu, T Kuan ^a   Bedrosian, Isabelle ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autosegmentation; Breast contouring; Image guided radiotherapy; Interobserver variation; Target delineation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SURFACES; TARGETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOSEGMENTATION; BREAST CONTOURING; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTEROBSERVER VARIATION; TARGET DELINEATION;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62649126505     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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