Systematic evaluation of three different commercial software solutions for automatic segmentation for adaptive therapy in head-and-neck, prostate and pleural cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  La Macchia, Mariangela ^a   Fellin, Francesco ^a   Amichetti, Maurizio ^a   Cianchetti, Marco ^a   Gianolini, Stefano ^c   Paola, Vitali ^b   Lomax, Antony J ^c,d   Widesott, Lamberto ^a,d  

^a Agenzia Provinciale per la Protonterapia   (Italy)

^b Spedali Civili   (Italy)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Automatic segmentation; Re planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VELOCITY; WORKFLOW;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866285679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-160     Document Type: Article

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