Segmentation of biological target volumes on multi-tracer PET images based on information fusion for achieving dose painting in radiotherapy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7510 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 545-552

  Lelandais, Benoît ^a   Gardin, Isabelle ^a,b   Mouchard, Laurent ^a   Vera, Pierre ^a,b   Ruan, Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b CENTRE HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

Belief function theory; Dose painting; Information fusion; Positron emission tomography; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FUSION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TRACERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; BELIEF FUNCTION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; DOSE PAINTINGS; DOSE PRESCRIPTION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; QUANTITATIVE RESULT;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANOXIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANOXIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BAYES THEOREM; CELL PROLIFERATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872589213     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33415-3_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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