Accurate Automatic Delineation of Heterogeneous Functional Volumes in Positron Emission Tomography for Oncology Applications

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 301-308

  Hatt, Mathieu ^a   Cheze le Rest, Catherine ^a,b   Descourt, Patrice ^a   Dekker, André ^c   De Ruysscher, Dirk ^c   Oellers, Michel ^c   Lambin, Philippe ^c   Pradier, Olivier ^a,d   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a  

^a Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U650 Brest   (France)

^b BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Dose painting; Heterogeneous functional volumes delineation; Image guided radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BAYESIAN; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUZZY C-MEANS; HOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MEAN CLASSIFICATION; MEAN ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; ROBUST ESTIMATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS; VOLUME SEGMENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ERRORS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOSIMETRY; FUZZY LOCALLY ADAPTIVE BAYESIAN; HISTOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77950689496     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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