Lung segmentation and tumor detection from CT thorax volumes of FDG PET-CT scans by template registration and incorporation of functional information

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5349-5353

  Ballangan, Cherry ^a   Wang, Xiuying ^a   Feng, Dagan ^a,b   Eberl, Stefan ^a,c   Fulham, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CHEST WALL; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; CT SCAN; DATA SETS; DIRECT USE; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; FDG PET; FIXED THRESHOLD; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; LUNG CT; LUNG LESIONS; LUNG REGIONS; LUNG SEGMENTATION; LUNG STRUCTURES; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PATIENT IMAGES; PET IMAGES; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; TEMPLATE REGISTRATION; TUMOR DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 67649196417     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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