Development of a generic thresholding algorithm for the delineation of 18FDG-PET-positive tissue: Application to the comparison of three thresholding models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6901-6916

  Vauclin, S ^a,b   Doyeux, K ^a,b   Hapdey, S ^a,c   Edet Sanson, A ^a,c   Vera, P ^a,c   Gardin, I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CALIBRATION PROCESS; CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; FDG PET; FITTING MODEL; GENERIC ALGORITHM; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISPERSION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72149091735     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/22/010     Document Type: Article

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