Lung tumor delineation based on novel tumor-background likelihood models in PET-CT images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 218-224

  Wang, Xiuying ^a   Ballangan, Cherry ^a,b   Cui, Hui ^a   Fulham, Michael ^a,c,d   Eberl, Stefan ^a,d   Yin, Yong ^e   Feng, Dagan ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PETRA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e SHANDONG CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

^f HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^g SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; NSCLC; PET CT; Segmentation; Tumor delineation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BOUNDARY DEFINITION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG CANCER; NSCLC; PET-CT; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; TUMOR DELINEATION; TUMOR HETEROGENEITY;

TUMORS;

EID: 84894489811     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2295975     Document Type: Article

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