Prospective assessment of an atlas-based intervention combined with real-time software feedback in contouring lymph node levels and organs-at-risk in the head and neck: Quantitative assessment of conformance to expert delineation

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 186-193

  Awan, Musaddiq ^a   Kalpathy Cramer, Jayashree ^b,c,d   Gunn, G Brandon ^a   Beadle, Beth M ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Phan, Jack ^a   Holliday, Emma ^a   Jones, William E ^e,f   Maani, Elizabeth ^e,f   Patel, Abhilasha ^f   Choi, Jehee ^f   Clyburn, Virginia ^f   Tantiwongkosi, Bundhit ^f   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Fuller, Clifton D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLAS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION; EFFECT SIZE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GOLD STANDARD; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN AT RISK; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SOFTWARE BASED FEEDBACK; REGION OF INTEREST; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 84879888975     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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