Lung tumor segmentation in PET images using graph cuts

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 260-268

  Ballangan, Cherry ^a,b   Wang, Xiuying ^a   Fulham, Michael ^a,c,d   Eberl, Stefan ^a,d   Feng, David Dagan ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PETRA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^f SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graph cuts; Lung tumor segmentation; Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); Positron emission tomography (PET); Tumor delineation

Indexed keywords

GRAPH CUT; LUNG TUMOR; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TUMOR DELINEATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTIONS; DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; PATIENT CARE; TUMOR VOLUME; WATERSHED;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84874228865     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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