Computerized segmentation and measurement of malignant pleural mesothelioma

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 238-244

  Sensakovic, William F ^a   Armato III, Samuel G ^a   Straus, Christopher ^a   Roberts, Rachael Y ^a   Caligiuri, Philip ^a   Starkey, Adam ^a   Kindler, Hedy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography (CT); computer aided detection (CAD); image processing; malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM); quantitative imaging; segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; COMPUTERIZED SEGMENTATIONS; JACCARD SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMAS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650855102     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3525836     Document Type: Article

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