A region growing method for tumor volume segmentation on PET images for rectal and anal cancer patients

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4349-4358

  Day, Ellen ^a,b   Betler, James ^a   Parda, David ^a,b   Reitz, Bodo ^a,b   Kirichenko, Alexander ^a,b   Mohammadi, Seyed ^a   Miften, Moyed ^c  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

PET; Region growing; SUV; Tumor delineation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; TUMORS;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE-POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; REGION GROWING; REGION GROWING METHODS; TUMOR DELINEATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 70349661886     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213099     Document Type: Article

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