Automatic tumour volume delineation in respiratory-gated PET images

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-76

  Gubbi, Jayavardhana ^a   Kanakatte, Aparna ^b   Tomas, Kron ^c   Binns, David ^c   Srinivasan, Bala ^b   Mani, Nallasamy ^b   Palaniswami, Marimuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

applied imaging technology; computer in radiology; nuclear imaging; radiation oncology imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL TRACKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952600000     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2010.02231.x     Document Type: Article

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