Intra-patient semi-automated segmentation of the cervix-uterus in CT-images for adaptive radiotherapy of cervical cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5317-5332

  Bondar, M Luiza ^a   Hoogeman, Mischa ^a   Schillemans, Wilco ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; HIERARCHICAL ALGORITHM; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; NONRIGID REGISTRATION METHOD; ONLINE ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPIES; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLADDER; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; STANDARDS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

AUTOMATION; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880645289     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/15/5317     Document Type: Article

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