Evaluation of atlas fusion strategies for segmentation of head and neck lymph nodes for radiotherapy planning

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1276-1279

  Gorthi, Subrahmanyam ^a   Cuadra, Meritxell Bach ^a,b   Schick, Ulrike ^c   Tercier, Pierre Alain ^d   Allal, Abdelkarim S ^d   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; IMRT; label fusion; lymph nodes; MRF; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CT IMAGE; EDGE-PRESERVING SMOOTHING; FUSION ALGORITHMS; FUSION METHODS; FUSION STRATEGIES; HEAD AND NECK; IMRT; LYMPH NODE; MAJORITY VOTING; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MRF; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; SHAPE BASED; WEIGHTED VOTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84864858873     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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