Automated detection and delineation of lung tumors in PET-CT volumes using a lung atlas and iterative mean-SUV threshold

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Atlas registration; Lung segmentation; Segmentation; Tumor delineation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE METHODS; ADJACENT STRUCTURES; ATLAS REGISTRATION; AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; BOUNDARY DEFINITION; CHEST WALL; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; CT VOLUME; DIFFERENT SIZES; LIMITED RESOLUTION; LUNG SEGMENTATION; LUNG TUMOR; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PET IMAGES; REGION GROWING; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; TUMOR DELINEATION;

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

TUMORS;

EID: 71649090869     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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