A new method for volume segmentation of PET images, based on possibility theory

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 409-423

  Dewalle Vignion, Anne Sophie ^a,b,c   Betrouni, Nacim ^b   Lopes, Renaud ^a,b   Huglo, Damien ^a,b,c   Stute, Simon ^d   Vermandel, Maximilien ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Maximum intensity projection; positron emission tomography; possibility theory; segmentation; standardized uptake value

Indexed keywords

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; DATA SETS; FDG PET; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; PET IMAGES; PHANTOM IMAGES; POSSIBILITY THEORY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; SEGMENTATION; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SIMULATED IMAGES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; VOLUME OF INTEREST; VOLUME SEGMENTATION;

ELECTRONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POSITRONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79551605967     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2083681     Document Type: Article

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