Lesion detection and characterization with context driven approximation in thoracic FDG PET-CT images of NSCLC studies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 408-421

  Song, Yang ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Huang, Heng ^b   Wang, Xiaogang ^c   Zhou, Yun ^d   Fulham, Michael J ^e,f   Feng, David Dagan ^a,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^h SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation; characterization; detection; multi atlas model; sparse representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84894075255     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2285931     Document Type: Article

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