Atlas-based segmentation improves consistency and decreases time required for contouring postoperative endometrial cancer nodal volumes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 943-947

  Young, Amy V ^a,b   Wortham, Angela ^c   Wernick, Iddo ^b   Evans, Andrew ^b   Ennis, Ronald D ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; Autocontouring; Endometrial cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADJUVANT TREATMENT; ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; AUTOCONTOURING; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TARGET DELINEATION; TARGET VOLUMES; TIME SAVINGS; TIME-DIFFERENCES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; ATLAS BASED SEGMENTATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PELVIS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551487657     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.063     Document Type: Article

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