Novel multimodality segmentation using level sets and Jensen-Rényi divergence

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Markel, Daniel ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^b,c,d   El Naqa, Issam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical oncology; Level sets; Multimodal segmentation; Pet ct; Statistical divergence measures

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL ONCOLOGY; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE MEASURES; LEVEL SET; MULTI-MODAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTI-MODAL SEGMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; JENSEN RENYI DIVERGENCE; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MULTIMODAL SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL DIVERGENCE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84890083847     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4828836     Document Type: Article

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