Development of an accelerated GVF semi-automatic contouring algorithm for radiotherapy treatment planning

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 650-656

  Wu, Xingen ^a   Spencer, Sharon A ^a   Shen, Sui ^a   Fiveash, John B ^a   Duan, Jun ^a   Brezovich, Ivan A ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour; Adaptive radiation therapy; Image segmentation; Image guided radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED METHOD; ACTIVE CONTOUR; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTOUR ACCURACY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; RIGHT VENTRICLE; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349114073     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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