Auto-segmentation of normal and target structures in head and neck CT images: A feature-driven model-based approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6160-6170

  Qazi, Arish A ^a   Pekar, Vladimir ^b   Kim, John ^a   Xie, Jason ^a   Breen, Stephen L ^a   Jaffray, David A ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

head and neck; image registration; radiation therapy planning; segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; HEAD AND NECK; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; VOXEL CLASSIFICATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80855156798     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3654160     Document Type: Article

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