Semiautomatic segmentation and follow-up of multicomponent low-grade tumors in longitudinal brain MRI studies

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Weizman, Lior ^a   Sira, Liat Ben ^b   Joskowicz, Leo ^a   Rubin, Daniel L ^c   Yeom, Kristen W ^c   Constantini, Shlomi ^b   Shofty, Ben ^b   Bashat, Dafna Ben ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain tumor; follow up; multispectral MRI; segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN TUMORS; FOLLOW UP; MULTISPECTRAL MRIS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERAPY ASSESSMENT;

TUMORS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGIST; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; VISUAL SYSTEM; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GLIOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIC TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIC TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899512814     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4871040     Document Type: Article

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