Autocontouring versus manual contouring

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 658-

  Hatt, Mathieu ^a   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a   Le Rest, Catherine Cheze ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUTOCONTOURING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MANUAL CONTOURING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR VOLUME; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 79954574761     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.084897     Document Type: Letter

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