Optimal Co-segmentation of tumor in PET-CT images with context information

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1685-1697

  Song, Qi ^a,c   Bai, Junjie ^a   Han, Dongfeng ^a   Bhatia, Sudershan ^b   Sun, Wenqing ^b   Rockey, William ^b   Bayouth, John E ^b   Buatti, John M ^b   Wu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Context information; global optimization; graph cut; image segmentation; lung tumor; Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET CT)

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT INFORMATION; GRAPH CUT; LUNG TUMOR; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MAXIMUM FLOW PROBLEMS; POSITRON EMISSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; SEMANTICS; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; REGISTRATION; SEED SET; SOLID TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883413660     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2263388     Document Type: Article

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