New strategy for automatic tumor segmentation by adaptive thresholding on PET/CT images

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 236-251

  Moussallem, Mazen ^a,b   Valette, Pierre Jean ^a,b   Traverse Glehen, Alexandra ^a,b   Houzard, Claire ^a,b   Jegou, Christophe ^a,b   Giammarile, Francesco ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholding; Automatic segmentation; FDG pET CT; Radiotherapy oncology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867073593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v13i5.3875     Document Type: Article

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