Measuring the similarity of target volume delineations independent of the number of observers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2863-2873

  Kouwenhoven, Erik ^a   Giezen, Marina ^a   Struikmans, Henk ^b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMITY INDEX; NUMERICAL VALUES; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; TARGET DELINEATION; TARGET VOLUME DELINEATION;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TARGET ORGAN; BREAST TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649869940     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/018     Document Type: Article

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