Ultrasound GLCM texture analysis of radiation-induced parotid-gland injury in head-and-neck cancer radiotherapy: An in vivo study of late toxicity

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5732-5739

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Tridandapani, Srini ^a   Beitler, Jonathan J ^a   Yu, David S ^a   Yoshida, Emi J ^b   Curran, Walter J ^a   Liu, Tian ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GLCM texture; head and neck cancer; radiation toxicity; sonographic features; xerostomia

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ENTROPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TEXTURES; TOXICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANGULAR SECOND MOMENT; GRAY LEVEL CO OCCURRENCE MATRIX(GLCM); HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INVERSE DIFFERENTIAL MOMENT; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIATION TOXICITY; SONOGRAPHIC; XEROSTOMIA;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84866054006     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4747526     Document Type: Article

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