Lung tumor delineation in PET-CT images using a downhill region growing and a Gaussian mixture model

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2173-2176

  Ballangan, Cherry ^a   Wang, Xiuying ^a   Fulham, Michael ^a,b,c   Eberl, Stefan ^a,b   Feng, Dagan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

NSCLC; PET CT; Tumor delineation; tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

CHEST WALL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CT IMAGE; DATA SETS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LUNG TUMOR; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NSCLC; PET IMAGES; PET-CT; REGION GROWING; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES; TUMOR DELINEATION; TUMOR SEGMENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; IMAGE PROCESSING; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863042588     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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