Tumor-cut: Segmentation of brain tumors on contrast enhanced mr images for radiosurgery applications

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 790-804

  Hamamci, Andac ^a   Kucuk, Nadir ^b   Karaman, Kutlay ^b   Engin, Kayihan ^b   Unal, Gozde ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Anadolu Medical Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain tumor segmentation; cellular automata; contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); necrotic tissue segmentation; radiosurgery; radiotherapy; seeded segmentation; shortest paths

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; NECROTIC TISSUE; RADIOSURGERY; SHORTEST PATH;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857934398     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2181857     Document Type: Article

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