Automatic contouring of brachial plexus using a multi-atlas approach for lung cancer radiation therapy

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Jinzhong ^a   Amini, Arya ^a,b   Williamson, Ryan ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Zhang, Yongbin ^a   Komaki, Ritsuko ^a   Liao, Zhongxing ^a   Cox, James ^a   Welsh, James ^a   Court, Laurence ^a   Dong, Lei ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Scripps Proton Therapy Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTI ATLAS SEGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84884357127     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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