Voxel clustering for quantifying PET-based treatment response assessment

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Waller, Anthony F ^a   Crocker, Ian ^a   Curran, Walter ^a   Fox, Tim ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

changes SUV; deformable registration; response assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; REDUCTION; TUMORS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CHANGES SUV; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FREE-FORM DEFORMATION; RADIATION TREATMENTS; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; RESPONSE ASSESSMENT; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

3' FLUOROTHYMIDINE F 18; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872033297     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4764900     Document Type: Article

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