Automated tumour boundary delineation on 18F-FDG PET images using active contour coupled with shifted-optimal thresholding method

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5995-6005

  Khamwan, Kitiwat ^a   Krisanachinda, Anchali ^a   Pluempitiwiriyawej, Charnchai ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC METHOD; BOUNDARY DELINEATION; CANCER PATIENTS; COMBINED ALGORITHMS; COMBINED METHOD; LESION SIZE; MANUAL TRACING; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; PET IMAGES; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; TORSO PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84866452627     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/19/5995     Document Type: Article

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