Automated Radiation Targeting in Head-and-Neck Cancer Using Region-Based Texture Analysis of PET and CT Images

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 618-625

  Yu, Huan ^a   Caldwell, Curtis ^a,b   Mah, Katherine ^a,b   Poon, Ian ^a,b   Balogh, Judith ^a,b   MacKenzie, Robert ^a,b   Khaouam, Nader ^a,b   Tirona, Romeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

18F fluoro deoxy glucose positron emission tomography computed tomography; automated target volume segmentation; FDG PET CT; Head and neck cancer; radiation targeting; radiotherapy planning; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

18F-FLUORO-DEOXY GLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; AUTOMATED TARGET VOLUME SEGMENTATION; FDG-PET/CT; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; GLUCOSE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LABELS; POSITRONS; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS; TEXTURES; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COREGISTERED MULTIMODALITY PATTERN ANALYSIS SEGMENTATION SYSTEM; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; EXTRACTION; GLUCOSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 69549111175     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.043     Document Type: Article

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