Segmentation of PET images for computer-aided functional quantification of tuberculosis in small animal models

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 711-724

  Foster, Brent ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Xu, Ziyue ^a   Dey, Bappaditya ^b   Luna, Brian ^b   Bishai, William ^b,c,d   Jain, Sanjay ^b   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c AFRICA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity propagation; image segmentation; infectious diseases; nuclear medicine; positron emission tomography (PET); radiology; small animal models; tuberculosis (TB)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOLOGY;

AFFINITY PROPAGATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SMALL ANIMAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS (TB);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SCINTIGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84896859764     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2288258     Document Type: Article

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