Electroporation-Based Treatment Planning for Deep-Seated Tumors Based on Automatic Liver Segmentation of MRI Images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Pavliha, Denis ^a   Mušič, Maja M ^b   Serša, Gregor ^b   Miklavčič, Damijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTIVE CONTOURS SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROPORATION; HEPATOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGION GROWING SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84880998664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069068     Document Type: Article

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