Automatic hot spot detection and segmentation in whole body FDG-PET images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 85-88

  Guan, Haiying ^a   Kubota, Toshiro ^b   Huang, Xiaolei ^b   Zhou, Xiang Sean ^b   Turk, Matthew ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Object detection

Indexed keywords

FDG-PET; HOT SPOT; HOT SPOT DETECTION; HOT SPOTS DETECTION; MODULE-BASED; OBJECT DETECTION; PET IMAGES; PROBABILISTIC INTERPRETATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; THRESHOLDING; WHOLE BODY;

ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78649877415     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2006.312368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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