Automated skin segmentation in ultrasonic evaluation of skin toxicity in breast cancer radiotherapy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2166-2175

  Gao, Yi ^a   Tannenbaum, Allen ^b   Chen, Hao ^a   Torres, Mylin ^a,c   Yoshida, Emi ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Wang, Yuefeng ^a   Curran, Walter ^a,c   Liu, Tian ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for Telecommunications Education and Research   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer radiotherapy; Breast ultrasound; Radiation toxicity; Skin segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOXICITY; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

AVERAGE PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ULTRASOUND; PARAMETRIC ALGORITHMS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RADIATION TOXICITY; SKIN SEGMENTATION; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC SKIN SEGMENTATION; B SCAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TOXICITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

BREAST CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; BREAST ULTRASOUND; RADIATION TOXICITY; SKIN SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84884533748     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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