Comparative methods for PET image segmentation in pharyngolaryngeal squamous cell carcinoma

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 881-891

  Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c   Abdoli, Mehrsima ^c   Fuentes, Carolina Llina ^a   El Naqa, Issam M ^d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological tumour volume; Head and neck; PET; Segmentation; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG UPTAKE; FROZEN SECTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING BASED SEGMENTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHARYNGOLARYNGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84862564409     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-011-2053-0     Document Type: Article

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