Clinical evaluation of multi-atlas based segmentation of lymph node regions in head and neck and prostate cancer patients

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sjöberg, Carl ^a,b   Lundmark, Martin ^c   Granberg, Christoffer ^d   Johansson, Silvia ^a   Ahnesjö, Anders ^a   Montelius, Anders ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Elekta AB   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; Delineation time; Head and neck; Multi Atlas segmentation; Prostate; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATLAS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; REGISTRATION; WORKLOAD; BOOK; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84884838780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-229     Document Type: Article

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